I have been off work for a month, knocked out by a standard hospital operation that left me with a secondary infection that has only just cleared.

It was a grim experience as I ranted and raved to myself about the apparent unfairness of it all.

Eventually I surrendered to the experience and waited for the healing to complete.

The enforced berthing did give me time to reflect on how I (and most of us humans) hate change in our life.

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