I made a mistake today. My mistake cost a lot of people a lot of time out of their day and a lot of frustration that they did not need. I, of course, am very sorry about that, but it happens. Yes, I feel stupid. I am thinking, though, that I should not be too hard on myself because anyone and everyone can and will make a mistake at some point that causes someone else a great deal of lost time and patience. I am normally very hard on myself. Much harder on myself than anyone else could ever be. I am trying not to beat myself up too badly over this because, in the end, everybody ended up getting what they needed and finding out that everything was okay after all. I am normally a very responsible person. I just had a medical treatment that affects memory, though, and that memory trouble was the source of the entire hubbub today. I needed my medicine. I did not remember that I had my medicine. So I called the clinic and told them that I did not have my medicine. You can imagine how the rest of the day went. Phone calls and messages flying, me driving around in a foot of snow here and there trying to confirm tracking numbers and find out where packages went...
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