Angela has an addiction. There’s one thing that she always craves, but if she gets a little bit of it, she just wants more. And more. And more.
Angela has three young children and she is addicted to time.
More particularly, she’s hooked on ‘me time': a precious hour when she shuts the door and does her sewing, or goes online and chats with friends, or writes in her journal.
All perfectly reasonable things to desire, except that her craving for that time erodes her joy in her life.
When she comes back from ‘me time’, everything else just seems a bit duller, dirtier and drearier. And even more than before, she wants more time to herself, to escape from the rest of her life.
Time to yourself can rare when you have young children. Some days it’s an achievement to go to the toilet without a child hanging off each arm.
Everyone’s ‘me time’ is different.… Read the rest
