Mark Dougherty’s Post

Origin: Quingdao, China Destination: Amelia, Ohio. CPL handled from forwarding agent, to customs house broker, to final-mile drayage. My customer is starting an ice cream truck company for her children. Thanks for trusting me with this run, Jasmine! #logistics #freightforwarding #drayage #finalmile

Just sitting back and sipping on my tea. Tackle at the knees.

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I heard the other day that our days are numbered. Not in an apocalyptic sense, just a biological one. You see, that’s the funny thing about life — none of us are going to make it out alive. Not a single one of us will walk this Earth for eternity. What is bothersome to most if not all is that none of us know exactly when or how our final day will come. However, we do get to decide how those numbered days are spent. Most assuredly there will be some hard days. The angry days. The sad days. The just so slightly perturbed days. The days when you do not want to keep fighting. The days that have us feeling defeated. These days are important ones along our paths. They teach us what the fiber of our being is composed of. Then there are those neutral days. These days pass with calmness and fluidity but with real no sustenance or remarkability. These days too are important, as they teach us about balance. Lastly there are the extraordinary days. The core memories you have made. The days full of new life that you sprinkle into this world as you count up the years. These are the days we all look forward most to without a shed of a doubt. Sadly, just as sandcastles flow back into the sea with the changing of tides, each extraordinary day will come to an end. That is why presence is so important. Embrace the beauty and the whimsy in those days. Yet, too often we look at our unremarkable and neutral days with a sense of poignancy bearing toward total regret rather than accepting that being okay and not okay is just as fine as being extraordinary. If you never knew rain, you’d never appreciate the sun. Feeling regretful for something is natural and we all experience it often enough in varying magnitudes. The real shame here is that too many of us focus on regret to such a degree that it becomes tangible & finitely quantifiable — like counting the number of Skittles in your hand. Regret, as a momentary emotion, is just a stopping point for our mind to learn from past decisions. It is only when we venture out into living in a perpetual state of regret that the glow dissipates from our faces and our regrets become too cumbersome and begin to consume our minds and our hearts. Dearly beloveds, do not fret the small things. Be well. Do good. Find peace. And for the love of everything that is beautiful and worth it in this world… I beg of you to find a calmness in the acceptance that it is okay to not be okay as every wave must have it’s crest. I hope you all have more extraordinary days than bad days. “You see, you are always at the place you always are. Except it keeps appearing to change.” -Alan Watts