Upside-Down Wisdom #14: Experience
“I had a hard day.”
“I had a hard day.”
Sounds like a simple fact.
Just stating what happened.
Like reporting the weather, right?
But there’s an assumption here:
That the day was hard.
The week relentless.
The year nearly broke you.
That's upside-down.
Because days don’t arrive packed with difficulty.
Events are neutral—until we breathe life into them with thought.
You didn’t have a hard day.
You experienced a story of difficulty, moment by moment.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
This isn’t denying how it felt.
It's seeing clearly how it worked.
Your experience wasn't delivered by the calendar.
It was crafted from within.
Thoughts flowed. Feelings rose. Meanings shifted—moment to moment.
And the instant your thinking shifts, your experience shifts with it.
Even if the day itself remains exactly the same.
You didn't live through the day.
You lived through the lens you saw it through.
Here’s today’s Upside-Down Wisdom:
You didn’t have a hard day—you had a day, and a hard experience of it.
This is Upside-Down Wisdom—a series where we flip the script on the conventional "wisdom" we've been taught. If you would like to read other posts in this series, please visit the Upside-Down Wisdom page.