I’m gonna need some backup

I wouldn’t say I have a ton of resilience when it comes to stress inducing situations. I can remain calm for a little while but after a while it gets tougher to make decisions. One place where I have to show resilience is work. At work, you have things that are expected of you to complete within that day on time. If I don’t do my job, it messes up everyone else. For example, if I am the cook and I don’t make enough food, the cashier has to tell them of the wait, the preps have to wait longer, and the customers have to wait longer. Everyone has to relay on each other.

One day I was on cashier for the day, but I was also in charge of prep if no one else was around. It was a calm summer day and I was getting ready for the lunch rush. Then a wave of customs come crashing through the doors and the plaza is flooded with a sea of people. It was terrifying and I’m surprised I made it out alive. People keep ordering large amounts of food and I was going back and fourth like crazy trying to make it all. The line got longer and my patients got thinner and I was started to really stress out. It kind of was like when Louie was in the ocean and all this chaos was going on around him. “Louie knew that he had to get Phil’s bleeding stopped, but if he went to him, the raft would be lost and all of them would perish.” Everything was flying by him so fast, his mind must of been torn apart trying make all things decisions at the same time. He sees his friends, he sees the life raft, and he seas the waves constantly trying to take him under. It felt like that, but of course on a less life threatening scale. So many things were going on at once. I didn’t know if I should leave the customers and go get help or stay and help the customers and pray that someone comes along to help me. At the last moment of my sanity, I finally took a minute and went around the restaurant, rounding up my co-workers and we headed back out front. Things were so much easier after that, when I finally decided to ask for help. I tried to be resilient for the most part, but after decided to go get help, it made my job a whole lot easier.