Friday, March 18, 2011

"The Curse" by Andre Dubus (p. 563)

            Something in my past happened that I feel I could have helped but instead I did not. I worked with a girl that always seemed to be sick and never came to work. When she did she always moaned and groaned and always wanted everyone else to do her work for her. Everyone talked about her and no one believed she was really sick including me. I began to ignore her whines and never took anything she said seriously. Then one day she fainted in the hallway beside me and hit her head. She suffered a concussion and was in the hospital for several weeks. During her time in the hospital they found out that she had cancer and that was the cause of all of her sickness. Afterward I felt so bad and kept thinking that I could have tried to catch her and she never would have hit her head and caused the medical problems besides the cancer. I so bad and unfortunately she never returned to work so I could try to make up for the way I acted. I try my best to no longer judge

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