The rides I want to go on

Pat on the back to myself for this past weekend. It would have been the easy thing for me to get upset with G__ on Saturday for the _____, or to insist that he and I go on some of the rides I wanted to go on, instead of just the rides he wanted to go on. It would have been the easy thing for me to have watched Deep Space Nine with him all morning, then get out my book and read, then make lunch with him, then go out to meet L_____, and get more and more irritable as the day went on, and then start asking him if he needed to be on his own, and why he was being so quiet, and if there was something on this mind. But I took the harder road – harder only at the point when I make the decision, because it’s an unfamiliar decision. But once the decision is taken, things are so peaceful and easy and joyful afterwards. I had so much fun at Thorpe Park, and a lot of that fun I had on my own, and because I was on my own. The same way it was so much fun for me to sneak back on my own at Universal Orlando to go on the Harry Potter ride, and that was one of the best moments for me of the whole day.