Situations

Everyday situations, taken apart piece by piece. Each piece goes in one box: yours, or not yours.

In a meeting your idea is credited to someone else.Criticism and insult You are passed over for a promotion that goes to your colleague.Work and failure You have made a mistake that affects the whole team.Work and failure Your proposal is rejected: too expensive, says the client.Work and failure You are put in charge of a team that liked the previous manager.Work and failure In your performance review you get a criticism you disagree with.Criticism and insult Someone is spreading a story about you that is demonstrably untrue.Criticism and insult A stream of negative reactions appears under your post.Criticism and insult You get a bad review from a customer who only half understood it.Criticism and insult Your employer announces a restructuring and the names are not out yet.Fear and the future Next week you have to speak to a hall of three hundred people.Fear and the future Before sleep you scroll through the news one more time, and then lie awake.Fear and the future There has been a burglary next door and you no longer feel safe at home.Fear and the future You have to clear out the house of your parent who has died.Loss and fate A friendship of twenty years fades out without a quarrel.Loss and fate On the day the contract was to be signed, the buyer pulls out.Loss and fate A friend is in the middle of a divorce and calls you every evening.Pity and compassion Your aging father refuses help he clearly needs.Pity and compassion Someone tells you about a great sorrow and you do not know what to say.Pity and compassion A friend asks to borrow money and you hesitate.Money and possessions The energy bill comes in far higher than expected.Money and possessions Your partner has been short with you for weeks and says nothing is wrong.Relationships Your adult child makes a choice you disagree with.Relationships You have slept badly for weeks and you notice it during the day.Body and mortality The doctor is clear: this will not go away. It can, however, be kept bearable.Body and mortality You have the feeling of running behind on everything.Time and attention Your day gets swallowed by other people's 'got a quick minute?' requests.Time and attention On social media everyone seems to have life more together than you.Desire and comparison You buy something you wanted for a long time and after a week it feels ordinary.Desire and comparison An old reproach keeps replaying in your head.The inner world You have achieved something and mainly feel emptiness.The inner world There is war in the news and you notice it seeping into your days.The world A new technology can suddenly do much of what you do for a living.The world The climate news makes you gloomy about the future.The world

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