The Hiding Place

by C.J. Tudor

I nod. We’re all too busy, too distracted by the sheer effort of getting through each day—working, paying the bills, the mortgage, shopping—that we don’t want to look deeper. We don’t dare. We want things to be fine. To be “hunky-dory.” Because we simply haven’t got the mental energy to deal with it if they’re not. It’s only when something bad happens, something irretrievable, that we see things properly. And then it’s too late.

My life