But Everything Seemed So Right!

(A Short Story)

        You open up your eyes to dawn's warm and golden sun rays against your window  and you feel a pleasant sting down your spine so you think, oh wow, this is going to be an incredible day. Now that stretch to make you feel energized - not to forget that whisper of a prayer - then you jump into the shower! Feels oh so good!  The coffee comes next, got to be boiling hot! You always want it boiling hot for some strange reason but okay, you take it boiling hot!

        Today's your sked for driving practice and contrary to ordinary days, all goes well. You smoothly go through traffic, your instructor is happy with your parking... she even takes you to the highway and tells you you're awesome.  Worth a smile! Middle of the day's for Toastmasters... you're Toastmaster of the day and since there are guests (one of them tells the group he is celebrating his birthday!),  you do a double job in terms of extra information to have them feel at home right away and they appreciate this. Aside from telling you that you did a great job, that you were simply fantastic, they invite you for lunch, for coffee, -call it a birthday treat, they tell you.... a raincheck they would even take.

         Then you come home to someone mowing the lawn.  The smell of freshly cut grass reminds you of twilight in the countryside. The smell of simple pleasure. It makes you wonder if such a smell came even close to that of falling snow or to that of drifting clouds, or to that of a cool breeze wafted against your face.... if  what these had could at all be called smell. But up the stairs now into the living room, the couch is so inviting  you throw yourself on it. The marvelous sensation of your muscles relaxing is at hand. That great feeling of falling asleep makes you aware of your thoughts floating around your brain, of the radio music at the background fading into white noise.  Somewhere in the middle of all these, however, the breeze from the window gives you a mild chill.  You could go grab your blankets from your bed but don't want to get up now and leave that blissful moment of just about entering sleep!  But somebody notices your dilemma and quietly takes a blanket from the closet to gently spread over you and you feel the warmth radiating all over you as you fall into a deep relaxing rest.

        After the short nap, to your work space in your room you go with a cup of hot coffee to relish.  The foot-thick pile of library books have to be returned today and you push them a little away from the laptop on your desk to give space to your coffee.  You had earlier printed out the reports you have to hand over a little later at this part-time job you hold.  With no more space on the desk you drop the sheets of paper on the floor beside you. Now to your computer to check on the term paper required by that online course you enrolled in. Four months of hard labor on this paper and tomorrow, you expect  no less than an A for the excellent work  and for submitting it on time. Midway reading the second page of the manuscript,  your cell phone rings. You try to reach out for it on the open shelf right in front of you but nope, you can't reach it. You have to stand.  As you do, your right elbow brushes kind of abruptly against the pile of books, making the top three slide off and push the coffee cup down to the floor on your reports, -and scalding a part of your left arm. As you jerk this arm in pain,  you push the rest of the books into the keyboard of your computer and you watch the screen go blank.

        As you stare at the mess feeling petrified, you ask yourself in horror, my entire research gone?  And as your eyes shift to the report under coffee on the floor, your inner self  implodes as you cry out  in frustration, - But everything seemed so right!!!
                                      
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