PAPERWORK WORK WORK
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Easy, to turn our back on events, but not on facts.
Easy to turn your back on mistakes, but not on the consequences of decisions we made – no matter how well-intentioned.
There are times we said no to something or someone, and we regret it.
And times we say yes to something or someone, and we regret that too …
But sometimes we have to plow through, visit again, every detail – every file, every pile, all that history and set the record straight, get papers filed and boxes packed away again. Like tax time, only worse.
I have to work my way through it all.
But beyond records of the past, events gone by, and reliving past work – some days, I need the simple things more than anything. Otherwise, old problems pile up to the point I start a second pile …
There is always something more substantial or more pressing that distracts me.
That’s been my habit for far too long, most obviously in terms of accounting and paperwork – piles find their way into tubs, then into boxes, and the boxes are piled up – which doesn’t cause the required work to deal with or dispose of them disappear, but wouldn’t it be nice I could make it so?
I hate that, and come tax time, it grates even more as I make attempts to focus on, drill down on, and clear the decks on things that create more angst than they ought to. But, after all, it’s just stuff – and in the end, the government owes me money.
I want to focus on today, and plan for many thousands of tomorrows.
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