I have talked about 'The Look" a few times before. It is a look that people give you when they know you just went through a horrific ordeal, and have nothing to so say to you. It is a look of pity, of I wouldn't want to trade places with you in a million years.
My first day back to work, I got this look from almost everyone. My cube is at the end of a hallway so everyone in the hallway can look down it and see into my cube. Every time I turned around that first day, I would see another one of my co-workers staring at me with this look on their face. I tell myself that they just feel sorry for you and the situation you are going through, but I am one that doesn't want the pity. Going back to work when I did was already hard enough, now add this to the list. I didn't ask to put into the situation that my wife and I were thrown into, so I don't want your pity face.
In the future, god forbid, if this situation happens to someone I know, there are 2 things I will try my hardest not to do. First is ask "How are you?" because we all know how I felt in a previous blog. The second is to give "The Look", because they are going through hell, and they don't need the pity to be placed on them during this time.
Today is day 32
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