Not Everything Is About You, Not Even You Dept.

This is a sequel to my earlier post about not waiting for the good times.

There are many days when the real world feels like it's engaged in this quiet conspiracy to keep me from doing anything. It guilts me into doing busywork, or it gut-punches me with reminders that I have unfinished business, or it wastes my time with tiresome and thankless chores.

Wait, stop — you see what I just did there? I just��anthropomorphized��all this. I wrote all that as if all those problems and obstacles were�...