Absent-minded or living life in the fast lane?

Got my passport, got my bags packed and much to my unwillingness to leave, I'm out of my boyfriend's apartment. An hour later, I'm trying to check-in and the darn machine tells me that there is an 'ERROR' in my booking. Having booked my flight through a cheap booking site, I was convinced that the issue will get sorted at the check-in counter with a human being behind it. 

The line is long and with just 60 minutes left to departure, I was relaxed. In Japan, you can check-in for a domestic flight 30minutes before the flight. As the line proceeds, a passenger in front of me decides to get his battalion of friends in front of me. 1, 2....6, 7... and I'm like you know what, it's just not an Indian thing, it happens everywhere. I reach the baggage check and a nice lady in the airline uniform requests me to move to another machine. Taking it as my opportunity to explain my situation, I show her my ticket and the error message to only be told that my flight is THE NEXT DAY, not TODAY.

Irritated, pissed out of my mind...I call up my boyfriend, who much to my disbelief in a very relaxed tone tells me to just come home. I message my best friend about the situation, who just goes on to blame my recent head injury as the reason to it all. I mean that's what you have best friends for..... you are never to be blamed!!! Like NEVER!!! 

My 30-minute bus ride back to the city from the airport was spent cursing myself. HOW COULD YOU BE SO IRRESPONSIBLE? WHAT A WASTE OF TIME? YOU SAW THE TIMING OF THE FLIGHT A NIGHT BEFORE, WHY DIDNT YOU SEE THE DATE?

And this was just two out of the 50 questions that I asked myself. Well yes, I banged my head pretty bad very recently, which gave me episodes of dizziness for the next 2 days and made many doctors question to whether I was pregnant or whether it was my low bp.... but keeping all that aside, truthfully speaking this would have happened irrespective of the injury. As I look back and think about it, there have been far too many times that I have questioned myself to why am I like this??

In present times, we have all started to love being BUSY. That feeling of working on something which you find important is very satisfying. I have my hands dipped into so many different things at the same time, that some times I take a step back and go WOW. This made me wonder if whether I was a workaholic of any sort. But I think more than that, I realized this was my way of filling in my family time. 

Being far away from my family has probably made me lose that emotional touch from human beings which I feel connected with by being BUSY all the time. While this might have led to me becoming very ABSENT MINDED and putting my health and self last on the priority list, I feel it has also made me feel like I'm living my life on a fast-track. 

This was my trigger to realize that I need to slow down a little. If you feel your life is on a fast track too, don't wait for that trigger.. take a step back, a deep breath and take 1 day off everything that makes you BUSY!. 

Meanwhile, it has not even been 24 hours that my marvelous airport incident happened and tomorrow I will again be rushing to the airport at 7 in the morning!! **rolls my eyes**