Snot Over Yet

So today in my prophet’s class I was taking a test which I had thoroughly studied for the night before and was fairly confident on. When I got close to the last page I realized that my nose had started running and all the sniffing in the world didn’t seem to help the situation. I very discreetly wiped the drip on my lip off onto the sleeve cuff of my sweatshirt and proceeded to answer the next question. The second time I tried this maneuver it didn’t work so well.... in wiping the drip from my lip the second time it caused kind of a chain reaction. The more snot I wiped from my nose the more it started coming out. I soon began to panic because though I was close to the end of the test, and many people had already left, there were a few more students and my professor still in the classroom and I really didn’t want them to witness my little problem. On top of that I was running out of cuff space. So while still answering questions I balled up my left sleeve in my hand and took one good long swipe at my nose as I finished the test. I then gingerly stood and handed the test to my teacher in hopes that no one would notice my balled up sleeve and wonder y I couldn’t stop sniffing, and scurried out of the room to the bathroom where I blew my nose and removed my damaged sweatshirt. All this because I forgot to take my allergy pill.

Sometimes life is like this. A problem comes up that we don’t want anyone to notice so we use a quick fix instead of getting at the root of the problem, or better yet taking steps to prevent the problem in the first place. So many times I use quick fixes for life’s daily problems because I’m too lazy, busy, tired, or apathetic. I think to myself that as long as I can cover it up so that other people don’t see it, then I won’t really have to sit down and deal with it. This never works, because the more I “swipe at the snot” or use a quick fix, the more the problem grows. I don’t have it all figured out, but as I was thinking about this incident today it struck me as quite funny and yet truly applicable to other areas in my life.

I hope this makes you smile even if it is a little gross lol