You just never know what’s going on in people’s lives – and we should make allowances
I was recently talking to a colleague who explained that he had just been diagnosed with something called celiac disease – a condition of which I had never previously heard.
It reminded me that so often I have found that people have a physical or psychological issue with which they are coping privately and colleagues and even friends frequently know nothing about this.
If we did know, perhaps we would be willing to make more allowances to people and perhaps we should anyway.
This is the theme of one of my short stories called “The Away Day” which you can read here.