You may feel like hiding today, but there are others making demands on your time and you cannot just ignore them. You'll need to overcome your resistance to being involved with people at work, for you are an integral part of the team and your absence could have a negative impact on the group process. Show up, but don't be afraid of hanging back and letting someone else take the lead.
mother of 2, grandmother of 6, live my life according to the teachings of jesus, worked in a local public library until my oldest child was born, full-time mother for a few years unitl inflation caught up with us, worked a few other places(at a maker of high school & college yearbooks, in the office of a furniture store, at the local regional headquarters of american baptist convention) for a couple of years, went back to public library, took maternity leave when youngest child was born, retired 26 years later.
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