Turn and face the strange. A new counselor started coming over about two months ago to help me deal with the neighbors. This is in addition to the housing counselor who has been coming over for seven years. This new counselor is nice and friendly enough but she always has suggestions for changes that I have to promise to follow through on. She’s just doing her job but I kind of resent these changes.
I promised my sister I would go to the NAMI group three times and I went once already. This new counselor wants me to promise I’ll go four more times. She wants me to promise to take my PRN twice a day, every day. She wants me to wash all my bedding once a week and she always wants me to vacuum and clean. I think I do OK with cleaning the bathroom every three weeks but she wants me to clean it once a week. The roommate barely has cleaned it at all since he moved in there years ago. This counselor always has something for me to do. I’m satisfied with my life without her but I had to promise to do all those things.
Time may change me,
But I can’t trace time.