One Day

I'm still working nights, it's a long month. My wife has 10 days off at her place of work and has taken the family to visit home.  At first I was thrilled with the prospect of being a bachelor again...that lasted less than a day.  It's good to be reminded of how lonely I was and how happy I am now, that it all isn't a daily grind, and to have it put back in my head what it's all about.  To remember that it isn't the family that stresses me, that it's the family that helps me keep it together.  To come back to the understanding that the job is the stress, the job is where the pain resides if that pain is even real at all.

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