Damian
04 April 2008

These past two weeks have been very hard.  The whole family got sick — I personally was sick for an entire week — and Matt has been working long hours.  And I can’t seem to recover.  It’s like someone has punched me in the gut, and I can’t get my breath back.  I still don’t feel good.

I had read that when you age, you recover much slower from illnesses, that you don’t spring back into action immediately as you once did.  But I hate being low…. hate it!

The accepted wisdom is to learn from obstacles and adversity, but sometimes, you just want to feel better.  You want to shake your fist at the heavens and cry, “Hey!  I’m not really in the mood for character-building!  Can’t we just do that later… or maybe never?  I’m cool with being shallow.  I don’t really feel the need to navigate the depths of the human experience.”

Even if you don’t mean it, you still want to say it.

I do feel like crap though.  But, hey, I guess at least I’m not shallow. 😉