There’s been a lot going on recently that’s ticked me off or put me in a fouler mood, most of which has been omitted from here since I’ve either been too busy to post about it or I felt it didn’t need a second life online. Anyways, for all the good things that are happening, I’ve mostly been focusing on the bad.
That changed after lunch today.
A few of my good friends are part of the Jewish Culture club on campus, which had a table in the lobby because today was Rosh Hashanah (hereafter abbreviated as RH), the Jewish New Year. He caught D and I on our way out of lunch, asking us to take RH with him, and that it would only take a minute. I had wanted to ask him why, for a second week in a row, there wasn’t a music column in the paper (I’ve written one, as has another DJ, and we figured at least one would be in the paper this week), but decided to wait until after what he had to say.
One of the symbolic foods of RH is an apple slice dipped in honey, representing the sweet things in the year to come. As we had our apple, he talked about how it was sweet, perhaps too sweet, but just right. He then told us to think about the good things, the things that drive us to do better, for at least the rest of the day, if not the rest of the year. And that resonated with me, enough so that I no longer cared that my music review wasn’t in the paper for two weeks in a row. And the message also made me feel at peace. And I think it did that for D too, who’s been dealing with even more shit than I have recently.
Will the bad stuff continue to happen? I’m sure it will, especially with my current suitemates and their various hangers-on. But I think I’m going to try and keep the RH message in mind–focus on the good that happens and the things that drive me–to get through it.
Tags: CS/SC, D, good, life, Rosh Hashanah