The ObservatoryHanna's quarter hour
A single mother of two, an ocean of obligations, and the quarter hour that turned out to carry the whole week.
Everyone told Hanna she needed to 'take care of herself'. She would have laughed if she'd had the energy. Two children, six and nine. Full time at the health centre. An ex-husband who took the children every other weekend when it suited him. Time for herself was something that existed in the world of magazines, along with retreats and long brunches. Her reality was lunch boxes at six o'clock and a sink that never stayed empty.
The collapse was no collapse, it was worse. It was a Tuesday. She stood in the hall with a lost mitten in her hand and couldn't remember why she had gone there. Not tired the way you are sleepy, but tired the way you are hollowed out. That evening she googled 'burnout symptoms' and closed the tab before the results had finished loading. She didn't have time to be burned out.
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