A sigh of relief

Today turned out to be good and bad in equal measure.

I struggled my ailing vehicle to work very slowly at the crack of dawn this morning, to be greeted with the news that one of my colleagues had been involved in a serious road traffic accident earlier in the week. Thankfully both he and his young son, who had been with him, survived. My colleague has significant injuries but will recover and his son miraculously escaped with nothing more than bruising.

That was most definitely the bad part of the day. Life sometimes seems very unfair, this guy already has more than his fair share of lifes problems and now this to add to them! He doesn't read this but I wish him a speedy recovery none the less. It's the kind of news that makes me count my blessings and stop grumbling about things that are really of no importance.

The good part of the day was that I am needed to work next Sunday, a day I had booked as annual leave. I agreed to change.....this consequently means I am now off tomorrow and given the poor state of my car prompts me to heave a sigh of relief.

Doubtless next Sunday it won't seem such a good idea but for now it seems just fine! Somehow an unexpected day off, even when I hardly work in the first place, is so much more of a treat!