It never ends well when a task comes up and I say to myself, “This doesn’t have to be done right now. I have other things that are more urgent.” Pushed to the side of a road without a merge lane, it seems to have no way to get back into the flow of tasks that are next in line.

Yesterday I was wondering what it would be like to never let the sun go down on unfinished tasks. And now I’m trying to remember the word for people who have become disconnected from reality.