No good deed goes unpunished

[desperance]

So I went to town and wrote a virtupous thousand words, then scurried off for my physio appointment.

Where K hurt me rather less than I'd expected, but I came out feeling sore-but-better anyway, as I usually do, if a bit depressed (as I also usually do) and a little sleepy with it (as I always do: it's one of those acknowledgedly weird reactions to torture); and I went back to the Lit & Phil and wrote another thousand words.

And then walked up into town again to shop a little (ask me about dinner tonight, I dare you) - and saw a little girl let go of her balloon. And ran, and stretched, and seized it for I am long and angular like that; and gave it back to the little girl, and smiled, and waved away her parents' thankings for 'twas nothing but common humanity after all; and walked on with a growing distressful tingle in my hand, for I had totally yanked the nerve and probably undone all this morning's good work. *sobs*

Next balloon I see, I'm going to stamp on.

*sobs more, for effect*

Comments

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I don't think no good deed goes unpunished, but clearly, this one is. But still. You'd have flt like a grinch if you hadn't. Physio could not help that at all.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Also, what about dinner?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. Since you ask, see next post...

[rflong.livejournal.com]

OH no. But you did a good thing (speaking as a mum of a little girl who would be heartbroken to lose a balloon).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Is true. I know it's true: I watched her go from happy to heartbreak to happy again, in a handful of seconds. And thought, "Don't be so volatile, little girl!" And then thought, "No, actually, do. Hang on to that, it's better than the other thing..."

[rflong.livejournal.com]

Very true.

Mind you if you try to do it as an adult, all you get is grief. Not fair. *stamps foot and pouts*

;)

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And people claim that virtue is meant to be its own reward...