24 hours

Dreading a 24 hour period can make you wish to be like Rip Van Winkle and sleep straight through. At least if you are sleeping you aren't conscious of a date on a calendar or of the activities of the world around you. Or avoiding crowds can help because then you don't have to pretend or hide your feelings. There are so many people that dread the next 24-36 hours. Children without mothers. Non mothers. Mothers who are without their children. There are many who will celebrate a first day in the club they have longed to belong to for so long, but there are many who are just surviving another day they will dread for the next 364 until it comes back to once again remind them of what they just don't have.