Exhausted

Since I don’t get sick very often I don’t know how to respond “the right way.”

I probably could have milked being sick to take off 3 or 4 days and no one would have said anything. I took a half a day.

I had a pretty full schedule and a bunch of deadlines I could have pushed off a few extra days, but I didn’t.

I told a friend I would help him move, and with being sick and everything else he probably would have still been my friend had I bailed on him. But I didn’t.

It seems like there are people who can get away with being sick, taking time off, and properly recovering. They get sick with style. But the rest of us struggle to get a moment just to rest before life forces us into a tired dirge of recovering while working.

The result? While I feel better, I am exhausted. With next week being even busier than this week… I need a break.