My father e-mailed me early this morning asking to meet him at the bank for business reasons. I wrote him back and told him that 4:30 PM today was fine. I left work a little earlier than usual and waited for him by my bank down the street. So, every single member in my family is always on time. If they’re not on time (or 15 minutes early) then something has happened. 15 minutes went by, then 30, then another 30. I finally called home (my father also forgets to keep his cell phone on him) and my mom casually told me that my father had already come home. Okay, what happened to our meeting?

I arrived home at 6:30 PM and popped my chicken into the oven. I started paying some bills when all of a sudden, the president of the condo association gets on the overhead speaker. Apparently there was a bomb threat that was made to my building. In addition, there were some pranksters who called from an adjacent building and said that someone was planning on jumping. The police were called with bomb sniffing dogs that sniffed the whole building. Everything smelled okay.

So…these are the things that made me go hmmmm today. I don’t know if I’ve reached a new plane of awakening, but I didn’t get upset being stood up, nor did I become overly anxious by the bomb threat. Worried, sure, but not over-the-top. I also laughed when my father called and said that he definitely wrote that he wanted to meet me tomorrow. He didn’t.

Lately, I’ve also been pondering about other people’s decisions, other people’s actions. Some of which are affecting me. I tied being stood up, the bomb threat and these things together today. I have no control over any of them.