Since we’ve been shoved into a very sudden and early winter, I thought it’d be a good idea to remind people to take a breather. Yes, it’s suddenly very icky, snowy and slushy, and for lots of people, that means that getting to school and work might be a lot harder, with a much larger chance of being late.
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But that’s okay. When the snow first hit, I didn’t think much of it: I live in Canada so it always snows. So when I walked outside in my Doc Martins thinking ‘oh this will be fine’, I was in for a large shock. I knew right away that I’d be late for school but hey, there was snow everywhere, so I wouldn’t be the only one. I ended up waiting for a bus for about an hour, and traffic was so slow that by the time I got on a bus, it could barely move. I spent maybe an hour in an overly crowded bus and was nowhere near where I needed to be. My mum called me and told me to just go home because if I stayed on that bus, I wouldn’t have gotten to school until at least 12 and that was pointless because I knew that going back home would be the same. So I got off the bus and walked for 45 minutes until I got back home. When I got home I was incredibly frustrated because I knew that I’d be missing stuff in class and I really didn’t want to spend the day inside. I’m the kind of person who’s uncomfortable with being late and who gets a little anxious when I miss things, especially school.
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I told myself to take a breath, I had no way of getting to school and there was nothing I could do. So I spent a Tuesday at home and on Wednesday I got up and tried again. Thankfully the roads were better and I got to school perfectly on time. This is just a reminder, it’s okay if you can’t always make it somewhere, especially when the reason is that of something unpredictable like the weather. I’m not saying that you should take missing classes lightly, but if you literally can’t make it down the street because the snow is going up to your knees, that’s okay, it’s not the end of the world if you have to miss one day. I do not doubt that all this snow will melt, nor do I think it that it won’t snow like this again, I know for a fact that I’m probably gonna have to deal with the horrid weather again and so will you. The weather is always unpredictable in Canada and sometimes things aren’t gonna go your way, and that’s okay.
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Let yourself breath, everything is going to be just fine.
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