Right now I have a thousand things
to do. I’m doing one of them.
Right now I have a plan. It
is to do this one thing out of a thousand things. When I am finished with
this one thing, I will do another. And another, and another. I will
continue working at this list of a thousand things. It will look like I
am getting things done. I will be, but the list will not end. For
each thing I finish, another one will go on the list.
My husband has five things for me
to do. I haven’t told him my plan, because it has no end. Plans
usually have ends.
He will want me to do these five
things, and I will do them. My list of a thousand things will wait.
Each of my children have seven
things for me to do. I haven’t told them my plan either.
They will want me to do those
fourteen things, and I will do them. My list of a thousand things will
wait again.
When I complete these nineteen
things for my family, I will pick up where I left off and do one of the
thousand things that I have planned to do on my list that has no end.
And things will pile up, and I
will fall behind.
But I am only one person, and I
can only get one person’s worth of things done. Right now there are a
thousand things that are on my list. Twenty of them are crossed off.
Tomorrow, I plan to pick up my
list and start again. Twenty things will be added to the list, and
tomorrow, like every day, I will have a thousand things to do.
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