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Unapologetically Me — A Writing Challenge
I Overthink Everything, and I’m Not Planning to Stop
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“Does anyone else have something to add before we call the meeting to an end?”
My words rang out in the school staff room. We had just finished discussing a new learning initiative that would be introduced in the coming school year, and I sensed the teachers were becoming weary. It was time to wrap things up.
As I turned to switch off the projector, I heard a voice pipe up from the back of the room. It was somewhat hushed, but clear enough to hear.
“Great, something else to put on our plates.”
As I looked over in the direction of the remark, I noted that everyone in the general vicinity was now looking down at their feet. Not wanting to draw any more attention to it, I thanked everyone for their participation and brought the meeting to an end.
And that should have been the end of it.
But it wasn’t.
I thought about those words right into the evening and was still pondering them when I went to bed.
I had managed to turn a typical off-the-cuff remark delivered by a stressed-out teacher into something that was given far more…
