He said at night it was easily 80° in his room and he was just sleeping terribly
Sometimes it’s obvious that the people around you are having a difficult time. For me, that’s extremely challenging, because it’s my impulse to help everyone. Recently, my co-worker and my full-time job has been looking and sounding absolutely terrible. Every day for the past two weeks he’s stumbled into work looking like he hasn’t slept a wink and he might be coming down with something. He’s been puffy, disorganized, and a bit spacey when you try to talk to him. He hasn’t been in a bad mood, but it’s been clear that something is not going right for him. The other day, I finally asked what was going on in his life. So he told me that his air conditioning system at his apartment had stopped working. Apparently it’s been a week or two since the cooling system has turned out any cooler refreshing are. Considering we’re in the dead of August, this is a bad time to be without any AC. He said it wasn’t even worst time, because all of the local cooling system businesses that stopped running their summer promos and were quite booked up for winter service appointments already. It was going to be expensive to get an HVAC technician up to the house, so they had just been living without any air conditioning at all. He said at night it was easily 80° in his room and he was just sleeping terribly. I couldn’t help but feel awful for my poor co-worker. That night, he and his whole family stayed with me and my functional air conditioning system.
