Damnation

Popular depictions of Hell would lead you to believe that the worst things in the world are endless repetition and lack of accomplishment. You're trying to push a rock up a hill and have to start over again and again, you're trying to drink water but you can't quite make it, you have to sit in an airplane seat between two really fat people. We've read all these things in Greek mythology, and I think we can all agree that they'd be pretty bad.

But they miss the worst part of any bad thing: loss. It's having something wonderful in the first place, only to have it taken away from you. This is why things like heartbreak and bankruptcy are hell.

The worst in the world, though? Getting to sit on a beach and do absolutely nothing, only to have to come back into work. I've just found my own personal hell.