"I did everything I was supposed to." Lucy forced down the overwhelming urge to throw her arms around her client, his voice was so dead. Barely held together and one wrong word away from breaking completely "I played by all the rules. I worked as hard as I could. I stayed up all night studying. I never went out to parties, I never got any hobbies that weren't extracurriculars that looked good on college applications. I got straight A's and into a good school and lather rinse repeat....."
She looked around the room. There were a lot of awards on the wall with his name on them. Photos with his parents. Teachers. Club groups, but nothing really personnal.
"What about friends?"
Felix snorted trying to smile "told myself I could have friends when everything was settled. When I was comfortable. I let myself relax a little in college and...met the woman I was going to spend the rest of my life with." He looked so wistful....not happy, just wistful. "I graduated top of my class. Got the job of my dreams. Married the girl of my dreams. Had three wonderful children....."
"....And then." She knew, but she needed him to say it.
He wiped his face. looking like he was trying not to cry. Lucy knew better. Not every man that didn't cry was stoic or thought crying made them weak. It meant they really didn't process sadness like other people.
"....And then it all went away." He leaned back in his leather recliner. Real leather. They needed my job for someone less qualified who they only had to pay a third as much. I lost everything My job. My wife. My childrens respect. I suspect they were looking for an excuse to make me redundant but...." He looked at her, a broken man "She got virtually everything. Only reason she doesn't have this chair is because it was my fathers."
"I haven't found another job in months. I'm running out of the money I don't have to give to her. I'm....I know I'm not looking to good right now and feel even worse......I did everything right the first time. I don't know how to start again."
"'Is' that what you want Felix? To start again? The same as before?"
"...No. I want to try something else but.....I don't know how. I was hoping you could help me. Please Ms. Wong. Show me how to be someone new that can drag themselves out of this hole I'm stuck in."
Her heart went out to this man. He'd worked so hard to get to where he thought he was supposed to be in life for it all to fall down. If anybody needed help. Needed a change. It was him.
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