Please, no more!

It was all going swimmingly. My new students, the ones I always bend over backwards to help, streamed in. Everyone a smiling face.

Until...

Last year we ran into problems with one prospective student and her daughter. Major miscommunication, but they ended up withdrawing their applications and doing their best to lay blame on me. If I hadn't bent so far over backward to help them, it may have worked. But I have a big, thick file of correspondence, proving my side of the story.

Now there's a big hoo-ha over the situation as we try to close it off. It comes at the end of a long, hard day that has utterly exhausted me. I don't need it.

But I've come to one conclusion. I can only do my best - that's all. Sometimes it's enough, other times not. I can live with my concience though. I know I've gone above and beyond what was required, even if it was not perceived as such.

On days like this I want to go home and crawl into a corner. I was never really good at conflict...

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Just as I was about to post this, someone came in and thanked me for being "the only one who works hard here". I needed to hear that someone has noticed, and appreciates what I'm trying to do - even if otehrs destroy those efforts by their inaction later down the line. That, on top of a hard day, has me sitting here with watery eyes. Life goes up, life goes down. That's just life.