I'm sorry.

[kyburg]

Just in case you didn't hear me?

In the last month, I have heard stuff that is still curling my fingernails backwards. None of it directed at me, or happening to me, or anything like that - but.

Big stuff. Deaths. Seriously long-term, forever and a day relationships going PFFFT. Stuff that makes the now routine job losses look tame.

I am so sorry.

And this has been coming in multiples, people. Not just one or two.

I'd be stone drunk if every one had gotten their turn at the bar. Seriously.

I am so sorry. (Please God, do not let me get numb to this. Each one is terrible in its own right and deserving of notice and attention.)

I have some spoons here, not a lot of them, but I do have some. And I do answer the phone. If you need me, all you have to do is say something.

No, no details - to spare the parties involved. They're getting enough attention as it is, and they don't need more of what they didn't want in the first place.

I am so sorry.

And I am hugging my kitties, mah boys and myself as hard as I can.

Comments

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

Glad to know you are taking care of yourself, as well - as the flight attendants say, "Put on your own oxygen mask before attending to others."

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

Been seeing a lot of that myself this past few weeks. It sounds like you've done a better job than I have keeping your stuff together. Outwardly I looked OK, and I worked hard to be a supportive friend, but I ended up with a nasty case of TMJ from worrying about other people's "stuff."