Not only is today, April 15, the dreaded tax day, it's also the anniversary of the Titanic's sinking which occurred in 1912.
These two seemingly unrelated instances that just happen to share a date do however share what we see as a very obvious warning, reminder, lesson, whatever you'd like to call it.
Simply enough, don't procrastinate.
Tax day is an even bigger nightmare for the people who wait til the last minute - it can cause stress of enormous proportions in your relationship when one or both of you stall the work on your returns til the last minute.
And as for that famous unsinkable sinking ship, there's an Erma Bombeck quote that captures the message: "Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No, thank you,' to dessert that night. And for what?!"
What are you waiting for in your love life? What's making you procrastinate to the point where you're very likely to regret your inaction? What aren't you saying to someone because you think there's plenty of time for it to be said?
We don't encourage rushing through the Five Stages of Dating, but we also don't encourage silence. Miscommunication and mixed signals are what drive the stakes through potentially good relationships. Open up, dig deep, and indulge in the dessert that your relationship can be.
→ Have you ever regretted not doing or saying something?
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1 comments:
Ominous day indeed but it's my birthday too, so it isn't all bad.
There have been many less than good events on this day in history for sure,like:
1689 French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain.
1865 President Lincoln shot.
1989 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England.
So here is my point, in the three points above, something wasn't done or said that could and should have been. If the right people had of said what should have been said who knows what would be different today.
My own regret was forgetting to say thank you to my loving boyfriend. He had been sending me flowers every month like clockwork and I always said thanks because of the rouble he was going to and how it made me feel. But then I found out he had set up a standing order through the kuutee.com website and he wasn't going to any trouble at all. I was so upset that I didn't thank him but the big mistake was not telling him why. The flowers stopped being a time to smile and became a time of tension instead.
What I failed to realise at the time was that by setting up the standing order he had gone to the trouble of making sure I would always smile. Silly me.
Had I talked about it when I found out we would have avoided some unnecessary tension in the relationship.
We did talk and all I can say is "I am so lucky to have such a thoughtful boyfriend."
Communication is important but doing it in a timely manner is oh so important too.
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