Well ladies, Valentine’s Day is over. Let’s take inventory of what we’re left with: an empty box of chocolates, no cupcakes, but the icing that got stuck to the top of the cupcake box, lingerie that needs to be washed and a hangover. Good!
What we do with all of this is up to us. The day following the celebration of love can go one of two ways:
1. Pop some Advil and lay in bed until noon. Leave the chocolate box on the ground and scrape the icing off of the top of the box with your fingers. Ignore the dirty clothes on your floor and step over them as you go to take off the make up you left on from last night. Brush your teeth until the awful taste of alcohol and that guy you can’t remember is gone. Finally, go eat a bagel, you deserve it.
2. Get your a** out of bed and into the shower, bright and early. Throw everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, into the laundry. Get rid of the chocolate carcass and cupcake box so you don’t have to smell the leftovers. Make your bed and get on with your day wearing your favorite sweater and a smile. You still deserve a bagel.
Personally, I choose the latter.
We’ve heard this time and time again about a hundred different things; it’s not how you act or what you do Saturday night that matters. It’s how and whom you are all day Sunday that counts. Choose to be a Sunday morning person, the type to keep on truckin’ no matter what happened on Saturday.
Be the person with no regrets. We can’t change what has already happened, the best we can do is find some way to deal with it. Laugh at yourself for that thing you did last night or yesterday. If you made a mistake, bravo! Learn from it. Make a conscious effort not to repeat it. Set goals, attainable ones. Nothing feels better than accomplishment so being able to cross something off of a to-do list can put you in a great mood and make your Sunday that much better.
Choosing option number one never leads to much in my opinion. You feel sh***y for a while, a long while, and you are left unmotivated and sad. Don’t be disappointed in yourself, you won’t get anything positive from it. The opinion that matters most to us should be our own. That means it is up to us to set the tone for our day.
Pick positivity. Do yourself a favor and clean up instead of stepping over everything. It makes a world of difference, especially on a Sunday.