blog seven-makayla norvell

There are many things in this life that consider to an inconvenience; traffic, the weather, the McRib at McDonalds, etc. to name a few things that ruin my daily tasks with less than helpful nonsense. The sheer fact that these things exist on the planet drive me insane, since they must exist purely to ruin  a day that was going just fine before this minor thing ruined the whole week. In early June for example I was with two other girls getting ready to board a small passenger plane to Washington, D.C. when a storm cause our flight to be delayed until 10 o’clock at night before the whole trip was finally cancelled, which meant that the months of work I had done to earn the trip were completely wasted since the project could not even be seen by judges unless I was there to explain my data. That was a really low point for me; after working so hard for something just to have it all lost because the sky decided it had to leak on that specific day. Life is full of minor inconveniences that tries our patience and makes you overthink some things that would normally have been ignored. Though in the end I was proud of the work I had done, it was not completely worthless since I was still recognized despite my lost trip and failure to compete at the tier I had strived for. It took this low to make me see that in the end, I was not doing this just to get a trip to D.C. , I had worked so hard on this because I genuinely wanted to make some type of difference and make my friends and mentors proud. My work was still being seen and it laid the foundation for something even better to come if the opportunity chooses to present itself. I now have something to work even harder towards and make it better than it could have been originally, so nothing was actually wasted at all. Life does things like this all the time to show us just how much we can take and still keep going, and how even at the worst we have the chance to grow from that into something so much better than we could have thought possible. All thanks to a few minor inconveniences.