Saturday, October 29, 2011

Uncontrollable Weather Controls Mood

I was standing at an all inclusive resort bar in Dominican Republic just a few hours after arriving in that tropical paradise. My second time ever out of Canada/to a resort. Both within a month. I was on cloud nine, so imagine my surprise when a woman walked up with her luggage, slammed it down, and started shouting about how horrible her vacation was due to the inclement weather. I turned a little bit in the other direction avoiding eye contact and not wanting to get pulled into her tirade or share some of the bad energy she was giving off.It was her last day at the resort, thankfully, but I still couldn't believe how she acted. I mean you're in a beautiful tropical paradise. The rain is part of the package in my opinion. And you can always just dress for the weather, and still go enjoy almost all the same things as you would or could when it's sunny out, except for lying on the beach drinking margaritas. And that's all that lady wanted to do, get a tan and get drunk all week. And she wasn't able to accomplish it, so it ruined her whole experience. 

It's interesting how something totally out of our control has such a large control on our mood.

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