You do not have to answer the phone or respond to e-mail. If you do, you do not have to tell the truth to anyone who asks how you are. Not when your truest truth would be this: I feel like someone changed the angles of the furniture while I wasn’t looking. I feel like I’ve been dropped in Canada and told to buy a car using only Canadian words. I feel like time is stretching in ways that hurt my lungs and heart.
