Sometimes I think moving to Texas really changed my opinion on favourites in regards to seasons. Truth be told, I hate cold, snowy winters and yet, the rest of me doesn't do so great in scorching summers. That being said, winters aren't too bad here and I actually kinda like them...if you discount the fact that another thing I dislike about winter are the short days. Summers....thank god for air conditioning!
It's really not so much the heat that drives my dislike for summer anyhow but the industry in which I work in. Ahh...tourism - the bread and butter of what makes us get to keep on doing what we do around here. Some of the people, though, drive me nuts. When I really take a moment to think about it, I realize we all fall susceptible to the sink hole of negativity. Years ago I worked at another job that was customer oriented and they said that a person is more likely to remember a bad experience and spread it around than they are to do the same to a positive one. How sad is that?
On that note, I'm finding that I feel that way on the other end of the desk - the representative suddenly aware that she's dwelling on the negatives rather than all the positives and even humourously off the wall that happens. Just in the last couple of days there have been cute and smiling kids, regulars with kind words and conversation, tips (booyeah!) and even a stranger who continued with the flattery, even after I'd already come through with a discounted room for the night.
Fears and worries have a way of eating at us inside, I know it does for me in a big way. I'm glad on a cracking busy Sunday morning, I can take a moment to sit back and smile - and to realize the good there is around me.
And that maybe summer isn't all that bad...
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