Thursday, August 6, 2015

Six Sentence Story: Reservation

For a while I thought I wasn't going to be able to link up with the Six Sentence Story blog hop this week, but this morning I thought of something I might share.

To say that I had reservations about making the reservation is saying it mildly.  When I was in high school, I attended a Business Club meeting and was asked to make a reservation at one of the few restaurants in town that had a nice banquet room.  The club held a banquet each year at the end of the school year.   The reasons seem lame now as to why I didn't sometime during the following month make the personal contact I'd been asked to do.  My natural reserved nature made that task seem almost insurmountable, so I just put the assignment far back in my mind where I wouldn't have to face it.  It was a painful lesson, seeing the disappointment of my classmates when the club had a follow-up meeting a month later and they learned that my inertia made it impossible by then to reserve the needed room.

Lesson learned:
Without reservation I learned at an early age, the hard way, the important lesson that through action or inaction one person can have a powerful impact on the course of events. 

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  1. Hard lessons...we often forget that in choosing not to act is still making a choice...glad you made it here after all!!!

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    1. Thanks, Ivy. I just had to wait for the brain fog to clear, so it was clear the direction I was to go for this post.

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  2. To see through one self is an art and you did that!

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    1. Thanks. I think it is so important for all of us to learn from our life experiences.

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  3. Excellent lesson. I would never have been able to call and make that reservation, either, and would have been in the same boat as you.

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    1. It helps to learn that there are others who might have had that same struggle. It is nice to not feel alone in the challenges one has faced or are facing.

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  4. It's amazing how something seemingly small can loom so large in our heads! And then, the more you put it off the "bigger" that thing gets:) I know that feeling all too well :)

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    1. It is definitely best to just take care of what needs to be done before it start to become a cancer in our heads, and then we don't have to deal with the regrets that come from postponing the matter.

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  5. Thanks for sharing this life story. When I was in High School I was on the play crew and my job was to contact the local radio stations and do publicity for the play. I had no idea how or what to do so I put in on the back burner, too. The hardest part of the lesson was the teacher's disappointment in me. Your story brought forth a forgotten memory.

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    1. Sorry that I brought up a forgotten memory for you. I'm sure my teacher was disappointed in me too.

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  6. I can't imagine you ignoring an assignment!

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    1. Fear is not a good companion. It causes one to do or not to do things that are out of character. I wasn't perfect then, nor am I now, but one just keeps trying to improve and learn from the past.

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