continuation from the previous post:

1) i shall blast my ears with music to calm down

2) yesterday i heard a story:

african king loves to hunt. his faithful follower will always say 'it is good'. one day, king got accidentally shot himself and his last finger was gone. faithful follower, 'it is good'. this infuriates the king. 'how can this be good when i lost my little finger?' so the king threw his follower into the jail.

one year later, king goes hunting again, this time, without his faithful follower. He was caught by this tribal group who are cannibals. just as they are about to eat him, they stopped. king asked why. they said, 'u not complete. you lost your little finger, we do not eat incomplete human beings.' so they release the king.

the king was so happy and immediately went to the jail to release his faithful follower. the king apologised and asked how the follower feel for having been in the jail for a year. faithful follower, 'it is good' the king feels puzzled, 'how can this be good when u sat in jail for a year for nothing?' faithful follower replied, 'if i'm not in jail, i would be with the king when the tribal group caught you.'

so the moral of the story, be optimistic.

so for being unhappy with myself, for being angry with the preparation for the trip, i will say to myself, 'it is good'