Try not having one

There are no bad days. Things may happen in a day that annoy us, or make us mad, but the day can be neither good nor bad. When we are frustrated with the events in a day, we say that we are having a bad day, when in fact we are choosing to let those events dictate how we are going to feel, how we are going to treat the world. I suppose if you spent your day being tortured you could definitely claim to be having a bad day. Or, if you catch on fire. That will also get you a bad day sticker. At least from me, though at the moment I am all out.

In reality though, there are events and circumstances that can, and most likely will, lead to us being unhappy. Or in other words, having a bad day. Now, we can say that we wasted a day doing something other than what we wanted to be doing. Some might call that a bad day. I personally cannot stand anything that might even remotely be a waste of my time, as it is irreplaceable. Though isn't experiencing anything at all preferable to experiencing nothing? Isn't any day that you have a good one? When compared to having none, aren't they all good? Doesn't the potential that every new day has make every single one of them good days, regardless of whether or not we feel it met that potential?

Rough days, hard days, relaxing days, happy days; these all work and make sense. Bad days; this term takes too much for granted. It makes it easy for us to focus on one or two events and ignore the rest of the day. Having a checklist, a balance sheet of things that have to happen for a day to be good or bad just seems to be a bad idea. I mean every day that I wake up I am still me, still the oldest of four awesome siblings, still my parents son, still the bestest of friends with my friends. Even if I have no more days after this one, none of that will change. All of us have things in our lives to be grateful for, and saying that we are having a bad day makes it seem like we are forgetting those things. As if none of those good things are enough to overcome one day of bad things.

There is also the strong possibility that I am nitpicking over something small, that everyone is entitled to apply whatever label they feel like using. I doubt it though.