On Friday night at my daughter’s Year 10 formal, she had to do something difficult and unpopular. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill teen, peer-pressure situation. An hour in to the event, she phoned her best friend’s mum and told her to come in and pick her daughter up. She cut her friend’s experience of the formal short with that call, and did it despite protestations from her friend that she was fine. She wasn’t fine. The effects of her latest dose of chemo had hit hard. The phone call wrecked their long-held plans for the formal, the after-party and sleepover. As Emma Grey from WorkLifeBliss writes today, There’s nothing more difficult, as a friend, than to do something that hurts a loved one short-term, because they’ll be better for it. Have you ever done that? hercanberra.au/index.php/2014/09/22/monday-moment-sometimes-the-ball-has-to-finish-before-midnight/
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:11:21 +0000
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