Killing Time

Apparently, you
can suffer from a broken heart that you didn’t even know you had.Last
night, I was asked what I had been up to for the past ten years. I
smiled, said something non-committal about work and travelling and
living life.

He said, “You’ve been lucky,”

I started to protest and said, “But I’ve worked damn hard,”

and then realised midway that yes, I have been lucky. It can’t be
all just a series of coincidences or good karma. I knew that all along.

I asked, “What about you? What have you been up to these last 10 years?”

Without looking at me, he simply said.

“I died.”

Even thinking about it now makes me want to cry.

I am sorry.

I am sorry.

I am sorry.

Sometimes I can be so cruel without meaning to be so.

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