I woke up one day, felt the day hitting me before I left for work...thinking about the eyes and ears over me as customers rattled on and on, and no matter what I did they complained. Someone I didn't know chopping up my day's work into ridiculous spreadsheets, some customer service formula. More texts back from friends who "couldn't make it."copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Yg7uUK0YY
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Nothing good that lasted came for the past three years. And so came this daunting, crippling fear.copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnU0OZctkI
What would change now? What reason for it to change? None.copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAji52Gww4
If I stayed home, the only place I felt safe, would anyone care? I'm just another number that sits in their chair.And I knew I had to go there, but couldn't. Breathing deep, I stepped towards the door. It all came back in such awful dischord. Nothing I did mattered..copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYAvit88mm
Again, I froze.copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSKJTyI523
Nothing felt better than something. There was no disappointment. Restless that day, I stayed home and rested but still felt so vexed and perplexed and the more I invested the more I cried and didn't look forward to days next.copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrD7JJaqfG
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"Think positive."copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VeVQUBkjn
This told me how much they didn't know what I was going through. So I stopped talking...it only made me tired. Exhausted from emotions tying me down, I flipped my "OFF" switch to cure my frown. Perhaps this was better...it wasn't.copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLWMRCsGty
Life was a routine, and I was a robot doing programmed tasks. My senses sensed things, but still was nonsense. There was no sadness, but also no joy. I am human and I must feel.copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡL191eOYq2I
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I sat in this sub-zero condition of life, hoping to be thawed out. Even after all of this night was turned into day, the frostbite reminds me, still remains.copyright protection174ＰＥＮＡＮＡsg9BioqgPt
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