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The Daily Performance of Being Fine
When was the last time you said “I’m fine” and absolutely was not? “I’m fine” has become muscle memory. Not a statement. A reflex. Something you say so people stop looking at you like you might fall apart in the cereal aisle. Lately it comes out daily. Sometimes hourly. It’s the verbal equivalent of slapping duct tape over a flashing warning light and calling it maintenance. Both jobs are on fire in their own special ways. Different uniforms, same nonsense. Short staffing. […]https://ericfoltin.com/2026/02/03/the-daily-performance-of-being-fine/
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Daily writing prompt Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. View all responsesI make a lot of to-do lists. I post a lot of them here. I don’t really have an issue with failing to complete everything. My issue is finishing everything in a timely manner.
How about an example? Okay. Let us say I made a list of things for today, Saturday. Hypothetically it would be a short, manageable list of achievable things. If I put my nose to the grindstone I would clear the list over the course of a day. Instead I get distracted and I procrastinate and some of the things get punted off until Sunday. The same thing happens on Sunday. I make progress, but the last item or two gets punted off to Monday morning. Then it happens again, on a smaller scale, and the last thing gets punted to Monday after work.
Everything gets completed eventually, just not on schedule. None of what I’ve written so far answers the actual question though so let me think for a second. What is something on my life’s to-do list that never gets done? I never hit a huge mega lottery. That’s been on my to-do list since I first learned what a lottery was. I haven’t completed it yet, but one of these days….