The Demise of Sympathy

Who do you turn to when everybody’s in the same boat?

Photo by Caleb Shong on Unsplash

Sometimes you just want somebody to feel bad for you.

I thought about going to see my nurse-practitioner to tell her I don’t feel good. I can’t sleep. Everything hurts. I don’t have any energy.

But then I think about the last time I saw her. She and her medical assistant looked like…