Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.