Why

Why do you constantly call me without ever leaving a message? I can see your number on my caller ID, it showed 21 times today. I know who you are. You've done it before. What I don't know is why? I am left guessing:

You don't want to leave a message because you feel that I should be answering your call.

You cannot comprehend that I have other patients besides you, but if I must see other people, the least I could do is interrupt their sessions to answer your call. Aren't you, after all, my most important patient?

There is something extremely urgent you need to let me know. Your shoelaces are untied. Your wife/husband/father/mother/child is not paying you enough attention. You heard on TV that Armageddon is coming.

You have all these free minutes on your cell phone and figured it might be fun to have a chat. With me. During someone else's session.

You have an emergency, much like the time you called, breathless with urgency, to tell me that you received a Jury Duty summons for the following month. And you don't like the idea of serving as a Juror.

Or perhaps you just want to make sure that I am still here, waiting for you, ready to welcome you back into this space where you feel safely loved and important, exactly where you left me yesterday and where you will find me again next week.

Unless Armageddon comes.