Underneath the Sycamore Tree

by B. Celeste

Pain comes in countless forms. The worst is seeing what your suffering does to everyone around you.

There are lots of quotes about time. Time is fleeting. Time is valuable. Time shouldn’t be wasted. The trouble with time is that we only think we have it. It’s an illusion—an excuse to linger in existence. Some people use it to be reckless; others use it to hold themselves back.

Disease is the monster in the dark. It lingers, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. It rears its ugly head and takes what it wants, when it wants. Yet there’s one disease that is worse than any kind of invisible illness in existence, and it is something the world is plagued with. Indifference.