This is episode

2078 of The Daily Meditation Podcast.

How are you doing?

I'm Mary Meckley

and I welcome you back to our series we're exploring this week, which is all about stress breakthroughs.

This has to do with those moments in your life, especially these days, when you feel put on the spot with the kind of stress

you may be experiencing. I don't know about you but since the coronavirus I've noticed that people just aren't quite themselves. In fact, I've noticed that people really lash out quite a bit these

days. We see that with protests, but we also see it in interpersonal relationships as well.

A couple weeks ago, someone had invited me to be interviewed on their podcast.

So I agreed and on the day of the podcast I was there waiting for the link so that we could join together so I could be interviewed

and I never received the link and it was six minutes after the time we were supposed to be meeting

I received a text message saying how this person had been waiting for me, it had been only six minutes,

and that I could consider the interview cancelled.

I thought this was the strangest message because I've been interviewed many times and usually if somebody is late, especially less than 10 minutes late, and I wasn't late, I was there on time waiting for the link to be sent to me.

Usually people will check in first to say hey is everything okay?

We have a meeting at this time and I've been waiting and do you need a new link or else

You'll receive a phone call from the person checking in with you because technology doesn't always work.

And also people are just very distracted now, so I think it's important to cut each other

a little slack. And then I had been invited to another interview and

this was another person I didn't know.

So I showed up at the time we were to have the interview

and that person didn't show up.

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