- Maybe it’s because of the weather.
- Maybe it’s because the holidays are approaching.
- Maybe it’s because of life changes.
- Maybe it’s because of shifting hormones.
- Maybe it’s because of the commute.
- Maybe it’s because of the job.
- Maybe it’s because of politics.
- Maybe it’s because of other people’s children.
- Maybe it’s because of my children.
- Maybe it’s because of school.
- Maybe it’s because of the economy.
- Maybe it’s because of the struggles my friends are going through.
- Maybe it’s because of the struggles that I am going through.
- Maybe it’s because I’m getting older.
- Maybe it’s because October 27th came and went and I’m missing my brother.
- Maybe it’s because I see my brother in my nephew.
- Maybe it’s because I wonder how my nephew is, without his dad.
- Maybe it’s because I’m missing my family.
- Maybe it’s because my kids have been sick.
- Maybe it’s because I’m sick now.
- Maybe it’s because I didn’t offer work to any of the people waiting outside Home Depot, hoping for some work.
- Maybe it’s because I said I wouldn’t help the guy standing outside the grocery store who asked me for food.
- Maybe it’s because he walked away while I scrounged through my groceries for things I could give him.
- Maybe it’s because I didn’t follow him and give them to him because I was late to pick up my kids.
- Maybe it’s because I wonder why a healthy looking young adult is standing outside a store asking for food.
- Maybe it’s because I wonder about the young couple who are working the intersection near my office.
- Maybe it’s because I wonder why they have decent clothes and a different outfit every day.
- Maybe it’s because I feel guilty for being judgmental.
- Maybe it’s because there was a dead mouse in the toilet.
- Maybe it’s because there were mouse droppings in the house.
- Maybe it’s because I heard some scraping sounds near a heater vent.
- Maybe it’s because it’s dark when I go to work.
- Maybe it’s because it’s dark when I get home.
- Maybe it’s because I miss my mom.
- Maybe it’s because I miss my sisters.
- Maybe it’s because I miss our family get-togethers.
- Maybe it’s because so many of my nephews and nieces are already grown.
- Maybe it’s because some of my nephews and nieces have kids of their own whom I’ve never met.
- Maybe it’s because so many of my friends are retiring.
- Maybe it’s because my kids melt down frequently.
- Maybe it’s because of the struggles I see other parents have with their kids.
- Maybe it’s because I’m weary.
- Maybe it’s because of the daily homework struggle.
- Maybe it’s because of the challenge of managing childhood defiance.
- Maybe it’s because I’m healing.
- Maybe it’s because of technology overload.
- Maybe it’s because of sensory overload.
- Maybe it’s because the house is never clean for longer than 3 minutes.
- Maybe it’s because the laundry never ends.
- Maybe it’s just because I’m me, living the normal life that I live, and pretty much everyone is going through something similar.
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