I'm Likely Running Behind, Get Over It...

I try. It's a battle, but, I try to be on time. It rarely works out but it certainly isn't because I didn't do everything in my power to get there on time. It just doesn't pan out, typically.

That's one of the issues with living a very, very busy life. It seems like just as things are headed in a forward direction that something rears it's ugly head in a complete and utter distraction that aims to derail all my best laid plans.

Self-help planning strategies, I've read them all, and no matter how mindful I am of my timetable I am still always running behind.

It's gotten to the point that many people who know me schedule me to be somewhere long before they actually need me to show up, and that's fine.

I'd rather it that way. Otherwise people get too bent out of shape.

"I've been waiting for almost half an hour."

"Don't you have any consideration for anyone but yourself?"

There are many statements like them and like the self-help stuff, I've heard them all as well.

Truth is, I want to be there when you need me to be so I am not going to get mad if I show up and the joke is supposed to be on me, because I was told to be there earlier than I was required.

Once I'm there we need to get rolling though.

I can't stand around waiting once I get there. Unless, of course, it's something like Christmas and the whole purpose is to stand around doing nothing... but I'd probably show up later if that's the case - standing around doing nothing isn't really my strong suit.

I like to think that I lead a pretty productive life. There isn't a lot of time for idle hands. There's always something to do and it is very rare that I feel like doing nothing.

Like the old adage: I'll sleep when I'm dead, or, like the famous line from Shawshank Redemption: you better get busy living or get busy dying, there barely seems to be enough hours in a lifetime to get around to all the great things one might do in their lifetime. So why spend it wasting your time.

It's this headlong pursuit of relentlessly devouring life that causes me to be that very same person who shows up late to that same life. After all, great activities are not always quickly ended in time for the beginning of the next...

So if the next time we are supposed to get together I am running late, get over it.

I'm likely going to be late to the next thing I am supposed to do on my list because I am hanging out longer with you than I had planned as well...

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