Yesterday I flew from San Francisco to Denver airport and landed pretty late at night. As usually in new places I set out to find a Supershuttle. I never book online, usually I can get a seat whenever I show up. This time it did not quite work that way. When I arrived I saw the Supershuttle, but it was already full. And one unlucky soul, who had a ticket to the previous shuttle which she missed due to a delayed flight, could not get on this one as it was full with ticketed passengers. So neither did I. The next one was in an hour. My first thought?

“Score! I have more time to study Spanish!”

It is a bit tongue in cheek, but it is true. Because I was distracted by studying Spanish, which is an activity that takes my full focus, I was not annoyed or angry that I would not get to the hotel immediately (and it had been such a long day!).

It is the same with dancing for me. As I noticed in the past few days that for me dancing, which also requires full focus, helped me to be “distracted” and not to think about the news about the Malaysia airplane crash.

Maybe people who routinely find healthy distractions from troubling emotional events are happier.

Now, back to Spanish 🙂

Yesterday with all the transit time I managed to get over an hour of study time (72 minutes). Here is the breakdown in minutes: