RE: Day 1803: 5 Minute Freewrite: Thursday - Prompt: side hustle

Thank you for the prompt. Here is the result of my 5-minute #freewrite.

It’s been happening for a while now; he wakes up before dawn and rushes to the toilet with diarrhea. Then he sits for a few minutes and mindlessly scrolls Facebook on his phone without looking at the pictures. He sobs quietly, and tears trickle down his cheeks. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. He flushes the toilet, washes his hands, and splashes water on his face washing the tears away.

He wonders how much longer he can do this. Is this really what life is about? He looks out the window; the sun is starting to rise, and it looks like it will be a nice day. But it doesn’t matter; he’ll spend the next nine hours confined to a stuffy room, not his own, doing mind-numbing pointless tasks because, for some unknown reason, in this reality, this is what people are expected to do all day.