This feeling hits differently. Most of us can relate to things happening at the same time, simultaneously or follow-up of a similar situation. The Domino effect is simply when one event leads to another similar one. From being sacked at work, to meeting an eviction notice, to a divorce. It could be that bad. That's why I started this paragraph the way I did.
This time, let's talk about a different type of domino effect - The type of domino effect you're responsible for.
I was very angry on a Saturday morning because of course it's my worst day of the week. Instead of resting, or spending the weekend with friends and loved ones like others do, I'm always cleaning up the whole house because it's the last day of the week and it's more like a culture for me.
My toilet flush had issues and I had a bad time washing the toilet. I'd have to fetch water and do all my work when there was a flush. Just because I was too lazy to keep doing this, I resorted to continuously forcing the flush to do its work and viola! It broke. Broke from inside and from outside! I was vexed in my spirit. Why didn't I just endure the stress and call a plumber later? Now, it was to fix the issue inside the water system and fix a new flush handle. That was an extra cost.
Sadly, I was definitely going to pay for this all the same.
In my angry spirit, I reached out to my ear pods to at least cool my boiling temper. My pods are sensitive to touch so I could control my music by just tapping. My hands were a little wet because I was working and all I had to do was dry the hands and tap my pods. But no! I did no such thing! I literally kept tapping on the pods to change the song but it refused to respond. I kept doing this to the pod on my left ear till it slipped off my ear, rolled down the steps till it reached a stop. I walked down to get it, only to find out it at factory state. All its parts were scattered, waiting for the manufacturer to bring it to life, but this time, it was gone. So sad!
This wasn't all. I wasn't done working. I dumped my dead pods six feets in the bin. I stepped outside to get one of the weakest buckets in the house. Usually, I don't use the handle of the bucket, rather I hold it from the brim. This day, I don't know where my mind left to that I handled this bucket at the handle and that was the end of my story. I got to the palour where I felt like wow! How come I didn't have enough faith to hold this at the handle other days. Just when I was about to take it to the centre of the palour, out of my bucket flowed rivers of water. Gosh! I'm sure my tears mixed in that water that day. That was more than annoying. How do all these happen at once.
If you feel I'm not at fault in all these, then read through twice and you'll see. Of course I had a bad day but who said I didn't contribute to my bad day? Your reaction to situations matters a great deal. If you're not emotionally conscious of your actions you'll go ahead and make regrettable decisions. It's difficult to stop you from making decisions while you're having a bad day, in a bad mood or things are generally not going smoothly. But one thing I can say is while executing your decision, ask yourself, is this coming from a place of how I feel right now? Make decisions that suit the matter at hand and not suiting the way you feel, so you don't have a chain of bad omens.
By chain of bad omens, it simply could come from consistently making decisions from your place of emotions which isn't the best. Try to be intentional about your decisions. This is only peculiar to this type of domino effect which I call "another type of domino effect" where I could be responsible for everything that happens to me.
Are you ready to avoid this domino effect from your own end, try making intentional decisions and see! Together we can put an end to "another type of domino effect" that is as a result of our poorly made decisions!
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