Pause Button

Your office was a remodeled mansion in the middle of the north west section of the city. On the second floor there were two offices situated facing west connected by a small closet filled with filing cabinets and a coat rack. You walk into the closet, close the doors and actually fall to your knees. with your work appropriate pants getting creased, you press your forehead to the floor, your hands laid flat on either side of your head. you say, "god, grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, courage to change the things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference." you inhale deeply for a few minutes. when you feel your hands stop shaking, you pull your head off the floor, your gaze resting on a dead cricket a foot in front of you. at that moment, you chuckle, imagining your higher power as jiminey cricket. Pushing off the ground, you shake dust off your knees, and as you open the door to one of the offices your boss is startled. She looks up at you, directly in front of her, she leans to the right, looking behind you into the closet, and says, "What on earth are you doing?" You smile and say, "Nothing." From that moment on, you know you have a pause button that works. You seek to employ it at opportune moments, please continue to page 10.