Making adjustments on the fly

# Chapter 301

There are adjustments always between expectations and experiences. You never get precisely what you were hoping for, what you were expecting. The most important question at the end of the day is, can you make the adjustment a good thing? Can you accept and embrace the tradeoffs that you will have to make? This is just life, and your memories and expectations never can fully live up to what you were hoping for, so you have to flex and accept what is rather than what you thought would happen.

I am sitting here writing this, using my front eight teeth to slowly nibble my peanut chunks into smaller and smaller pieces instead of grinding them to fine dust as a normal person would on their molars. I dare you to try this, and bet you $1000 that you will last less than one minute before you start shifting the crunchy peanut butter back to your rear teeth, beware your tongue! I have bitten my tongue more in the last six days than in my entire life. But if you took my little bet and lost, then you have come to realize that this exercise is far more difficult than it sounds. BTW, Nutella is much easier, it just melts in your mouth. Yet the overall point here is that my expectations about getting some major tooth repair done while abroad, never included six days and counting, of not being able to functionally chew. All this lovely cuisine, not that I am getting to enjoy any of it! Adjustment alert, adjustment alert! No one gets precisely what they are expecting and we all have to make adjustments while not feeling deprived. How you do’in with that reality?