No one truly understands how exhausting it is to be “on” all the time.

I chose rant because I didn’t know what else this would fall under. I’m also coming at this from the offender’s angle. I recently joined an athletic club and this week I took my family to the pool. While there I saw one of the kindergarten teachers from the school I teach at. I went over to be polite and said hi. This is where my manners won over my brain because I absolutely didn’t want to be “on”. She’s a great lady and we’ve helped each other out a few times in the last year and I honestly think we’re good colleagues. But, ya’ll, the look of dread when she saw me coming over to say hi was real. I kept it short, said hi, asked how her summer was going and then went to be with my family. We both didn’t want to hit that “on” switch that is so there no matter how nice the person, even if it was a colleague. I don’t think people in the community truly understand what it’s like to have to be professional ALL THE TIME. People are getting dressed in a locker room while I’m huddled in a stall because kids and parents go to my athletic club and I would rather die than have any of them walk in on me. I go grocery shopping and feel a little weird putting beer in my cart because I’ve run into kids at the store before. The list goes on. It’s no one’s fault, it’s just the nature of the job. It is exhausting though. I guess it did turn into a rant…