Pass
The next day I woke up with no appetite, feeling a
little queasy. I skipped breakfast, ate
no lunch, and forced myself to eat a roll for dinner. It didn’t sit well.
The next day wasn’t much better.
Three days in, my appetite returned. I had an important meeting that day, and my
new boss was coming to hear me present.
I felt weak and wrung out.
Before I let myself worry too much, I thought of
others whose problems didn’t clear in a couple days. So many people struggled
with severe mental illnesses and chronic medical conditions.
I remembered a client who’d had a son from a short-term
relationship. For the foreseeable future
she had to deal with his pettiness, selfishness, and overbearing family.
“I call him my ex, ‘cause we’re done, and because
he put the ‘ex’ in excrement,” she had told me.
“This too shall pass,” I quoted to my laptop when I
wearily gathered my materials for the training. “I need to be grateful that it
will.”
Today I’ll be grateful for problems that pass.
Novella is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters
and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.
Other
works by Ken Montrose are available at:
• https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S
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