The Dreaded Sunday Scaries

The pit of despair

Melissa Steussy
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

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Photo by Yuris Alhumaydy on Unsplash

The pit of despair

In our stomach
At the thought of

Returning to the place
We spend all of our days

The anxiety that wells up even on Saturday night
When beginning to think about Monday

We Love our lives, we say.
We love that we get to get up
And go to work

To help others
To put out fires

We are so thankful
That we get to have this job

We get to have benefits for
Our families
And make new friends

We get to load up on cookies
And treats
And wish he had an IV of caffeine
To get us through the day

“Live a life you love,” they say
Live a life that you don’t need a vacation from”

Yes and amen.
Sign me up for the vacation life.

Thankfully we can afford our homes
And cars, but barely

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Melissa Steussy
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

26 years sober, health nut, supplement junkie, and all-around fantastic gal. Wrote a book called, Let Your Privates Breathe-Breaking the Cycle of Addiction....