As I face another contract where I'm bound to the classroom, I'm thinking along similar lines. It's all very well to resist it because it's going to be uncomfortable (well, I will be crying and doing as I will struggle with my anxiety) but it means next year I can enjoy life a little more.
It's all well and good for people to tell me to look after myself and don't do it if it's going to make me suffer, but if I don't do it, there's other things I lose out on. I can't hide from this fact.
I'd rather hide, no doubt.
A different kind of suffering - which hurts more?