An Anomaly
Josh ( to me): I guess you're sort of an anomaly.
He told me this in a good conversation about sabbaticals for teachers, almost restating something I had just said, and I took no offense at the characterization. But sometimes I feel that I am way too much of an anomaly. Sometimes the feeling is more weird than special, more disadvantaged than privileged.
A few minutes of reflection usually brings to the fore plenty of good reasons to feel thankful for my station in life, and it really doesn't matter much anymore whether I'm ever-so-ordinary or an anomaly, or a helplessly stirred-together mixture of both. I guess that probably makes me a lot like everyone else.
He told me this in a good conversation about sabbaticals for teachers, almost restating something I had just said, and I took no offense at the characterization. But sometimes I feel that I am way too much of an anomaly. Sometimes the feeling is more weird than special, more disadvantaged than privileged.
A few minutes of reflection usually brings to the fore plenty of good reasons to feel thankful for my station in life, and it really doesn't matter much anymore whether I'm ever-so-ordinary or an anomaly, or a helplessly stirred-together mixture of both. I guess that probably makes me a lot like everyone else.
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