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Its fair to say my week wasn't filled with rainbows and butterflies.

So I am a procrastinator and once Tuesday rolled around, everything went down hill from there.

So I lost my phone on campus and was running around the city of Atlanta to find it. The good news is I was wearing very comfortable gym shoes. The bad news is; I wasn't able to find my phone. Alhamdullilah it was easy to replace and wasn't an expensive smart phone.

However throughout my ordeal of looking for the phone, I wasn't thinking of how to obtain happiness. I was thinking; my phone is gone! And most importantly I had no way of knowing how my daughter was doing. I still had the rest of the week to find someone to interview, but that day just really affected me.

Wednesday I realized I was getting sick, went to a doctor and was prescribed antibiotics. Thursday wasn't able to go to class, but I was on campus for a bit. Didn't feel like socializing with anyone except my husband and Jannah.

And here I am on Friday writing about how I went through my week not really searching for happiness. Not to say I was completely and utterly sad this entire week. However my priority wasn't so much a priority when everyday life came around and blew it away.

The events that go on throughout our day can easily make us forget about our commitments. It started with going to school and losing the phone, then the infection, being behind on schoolwork, etc. These things I list are circumstances that are given to us, the way we deal with them are entirely different from one person to the next. I tend to dwell on things I have no control over. I literally ran around frantically going from one building to the next looking for the lost and found office. The phone was gone; but the rain continued to drop steadily as the clouds hung low. Life is just simply happening in front of our eyes, every second of the day.

My baby steps for this week. Don't dwell. Accept. Move on!

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