No, actually, I don't feel like it.

For the record (and this is not poetic in the slightest).

I am tired of always doing the right thing. I wish I was meaner, or less empathic. I want to be harder and able to turn away. I am exhausted by my own internal conflict. I want to shed this need to struggle on behalf of others.

So how come it feels like this is just my work anyways? There’s no escaping it when it finds me in every aspect of my life. Damn. It finds me when I’m just walking down the street. Which says something about my ego-needs really, because I respond to it. I respond to it every time.

But today, okay. Just for today. I don’t feel like it. I don’t feel like going to bat for anyone. I don’t feel like making this phone call and having a conflict on behalf of someone else’s complaint. I don’t feel like mediating this situation anymore. Or anyone’s. Just for today.