Topic 131
What is your favorite retreat from the world?
Work was my retreat. I'd let myself get swallowed up in it. It consume my everyday, even when I was off, I was still working. Waiting for the pager to go off, waiting for Joe to call and say he needed me. I immersed myself so deep into my work sometimes my so called retreat would haunt my sleep. Crime scenes and victims played over and over through my mind. But I could never stop, work it was all I had.
I didn't have anyone to go home to which was partially my fault. I hadn't found what I was looking for, someone I could just connect with. Someone that I just knew was meant to be mine, that I knew I could never stray from, that could live with my job. So rather then dwell on the fact I had no one I let my work consume me. It was easier then sitting home looking around an empty apartment.
Now however, I know work will not consume my life. I've found that someone I can connect with, and now days off are days off to spend with her. Vacation is time to be taken and not forgotten. I have a new retreat from the world. It's the smile, the eyes, and arms of a lover.
Detective Ed Green
Law and Order
221 words
Work was my retreat. I'd let myself get swallowed up in it. It consume my everyday, even when I was off, I was still working. Waiting for the pager to go off, waiting for Joe to call and say he needed me. I immersed myself so deep into my work sometimes my so called retreat would haunt my sleep. Crime scenes and victims played over and over through my mind. But I could never stop, work it was all I had.
I didn't have anyone to go home to which was partially my fault. I hadn't found what I was looking for, someone I could just connect with. Someone that I just knew was meant to be mine, that I knew I could never stray from, that could live with my job. So rather then dwell on the fact I had no one I let my work consume me. It was easier then sitting home looking around an empty apartment.
Now however, I know work will not consume my life. I've found that someone I can connect with, and now days off are days off to spend with her. Vacation is time to be taken and not forgotten. I have a new retreat from the world. It's the smile, the eyes, and arms of a lover.
Detective Ed Green
Law and Order
221 words