A lesson learned...
So, after promising my daughter months ago that we would buy her a plane ticket to go visit a friend for a week this month, I got around to checking on the flight and purchasing the ticket - huh, what do you mean there are no non-stop flights from here to there? It's a major hub here to a major hub there! What do you mean it will cost me an extra $100 (each direction!) if I want her to have help getting from one gate to the next to catch her connecting flight (alright - in all fairness I did know this but I ASSUMED there would be a direct, non-stop flight so it wasn't a concern). What do you mean there are no reasonably priced flights - not even if I change the plans and book months in advance rather than weeks!???? Yes, I could drive five hours (in both directions) to get her to an airport that has a direct flight (X's 2 because I gotta get her there and then I gotta get her back!)but I don't wanna and besides that adds to the price of the ticket too because there's the cost of gas and a hotel because her flight would leave in the o'dark-thirty.
If I have learned anything this past year it is how liberating it is to be able to go to someone and say - "I'm so sorry. I made a terrible mistake and I take full responsibility for it." The old me may very well have tried to find ways to avoid taking responsibility for procrastinating and making assumptions that ended in a decision that caused such sad disappointment for many people - people that I dearly love and care for.
The most recent lesson? Check the details before making any promises!!! Also, I don't have to make a second poor decision because I recognize I made a first. I stepped up, took responsibility and rather than coughing up the cost of a ticket that I really couldn't justify in good conscience explained the situation to my daughter and offered to pay half of the cost in the future if she is willing to start saving toward that goal herself.
The upside? She gets to start driver's ed next week in lieu of the trip! :-)
If I have learned anything this past year it is how liberating it is to be able to go to someone and say - "I'm so sorry. I made a terrible mistake and I take full responsibility for it." The old me may very well have tried to find ways to avoid taking responsibility for procrastinating and making assumptions that ended in a decision that caused such sad disappointment for many people - people that I dearly love and care for.
The most recent lesson? Check the details before making any promises!!! Also, I don't have to make a second poor decision because I recognize I made a first. I stepped up, took responsibility and rather than coughing up the cost of a ticket that I really couldn't justify in good conscience explained the situation to my daughter and offered to pay half of the cost in the future if she is willing to start saving toward that goal herself.
The upside? She gets to start driver's ed next week in lieu of the trip! :-)
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