You know that part in “What About Bob?” where Bob (Bill Murray) is begging Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfus) to see him while he’s on vacation? (I just wanted to put that pertinent actor info in there in case you’ve been under a rock for a couple/three decades.)
“I’m doing the work. I’m not a slacker. Gimme. Gimme. I need. I need. I need.”
It’s funny, right?
Except for right this minute, maybe it’s not.
I feel like my fragility is so highlighted right now. Like I’m balanced on a precipice of “I can maybe handle what today brings” and “I need. I need. I need.”
My new goal / desire / plan of attack is to assume that everyone, from the kindest to the cruelest, from the most put-together to the… well, least of these, everyone is perched on the same razor-thin balance. We all need. This whole everything (health, fear, uncertainty, fear, school resuming, more fear) is tough. We are taking an emotional beating.
We all need.
I’m going to look out for the need.