Anxious Life

There was this anxious feeling I would get every morning before "service" would pick me up to take me to "Mahdeh Koodak e Nahid" on Jordan Blvd: Butterflies in my stomach, heart burn, difficulty breathing. Going to kindergarten was not enjoyable at all. There was always a fear that a teacher might expect something of me I could not perform or an older kid might bully me around...or I that couldn't swim as well as other kids.

27 years later...I still have that feeling some mornings before coming to work.