I have a friend at work. Let me rephrase it. I had a friend – work.
We were getting along just fine when I started. It was a lot of fun spending
time with him (shall I call him “him”). Apart from work, I had a couple more
friends namely exercise and sport. After some time, work introduced me to a kid
called Stress. He said, Stress in small doses is good (no pun intended). I was
okay. Once when I was about to meet work, I called Stress and said, “buddy, do
you want to come along”. Stress was happy to tag along. He was still in his
nappies so I had to drive him along, but he helped me in my interactions with
work. We had a lot of fun together. Stress didn’t have a lot of money though. I
had to feed him. I was more than happy to do it, because he was a friend.
Unfortunately though he had a liking for junk food and over time, he grew big.
Think of this as a small whatsapp group. Initially I was the
admin. Once Stress grew, he asked for Admin privileges, and like a fool I gave
him. After some point in time, I was stripped off the Admin rights. Suddenly, I
see that Stress has called in couple of his own friends to the group. Anxiety
and depression. I could see that Exercise and Sport didn’t like the new
entrants and they didn’t like the new transformed Stress as well. They slowly
started deserting me. If I called them, they wont even pick up my calls and one
day, they left the group. I am still wondering if they left on their own or
Stress made them to.
Anyways, work, Stress, Anxiety and Depression are in my group now
and except me, everyone else is enjoying each other’s company. Everyday, they
are bringing in new friends and have a party at my expense. The other day,
Stress asked if he can add a couple of new friends - smoking and drinking to
the group. I have asked him to hold off for now. I may include them later. What
do you say?
The data pack still comes from me to feed all of them. If you
find Sport and Exercise, can you please let them know that I miss them?
