The point is, you can’t expect to go through life making everyone you meet happy all of the time. For one thing, even if you try it, you’re going to fail. It’s a basic tenat of the human condition. That applies in general, actually.

So, today, I managed to piss of my boss. There was this computer I was supposed to have ready by this morning, which I couldn’t get working. If I had taken the simple step of emailing him to tell him this, I probably would have come out of it looking a lot better than I did. Now granted, this wasn’t entirely my fault. The stupid thing kept blue-screening. It’s probably the shitty add-in network card. Nonetheless, that doesn’t change the fact that my failure to communicate got me in trouble.

That’s just the way life works. On the other hand, I made myself happy by going to bed at a reasonable time, thus ensuring that I didn’t spend all day as a miserable tired wreck, pissing everyone he meets off by spouting his irritating opinions on everything. That’s just a bad way to go about things.

The second person I pissed off was a girl at Satellite who happend to order almost the exact same drink that I did. I picked up her drink by accident. She gave me a dirty look, I apoligized upon realizing my mistake, and she still left in a huff. At that point, I had no chance of making her happy before she left. She just wasn’t in a mood to be receptive to any apologies. Simple as that. As a situation, it’s even less avoidable than the above mentioned scenario.

The one person I can make happy every single day is myself. Even if I don’t pull it off everyday, the potential is at least there. Most days, I do alright. Sitting in a coffee shop while writing blog posts that I can pretend people will actually read helps quite a bit with that. Especially since I got my coffee for free.