Time

Daily writing prompt

Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

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Sitting here on my computer- I'm supposed to be writing my next short story. Seinfeld is playing softly in the background. My mind keeps drifting off to places unrelated to the task at hand which in turn spikes my anxiety. I hate not completing my tasks in their scheduled time period. 

1:30 PM on the clock. Where did the time go? An age old question asked by millions. One I ask myself at least twice daily. How does it go by so quickly? I was up by 5:30AM this morning checking off items on the to do list from the moment my feet hit the ground. And yet, here we are half way through the day and it's still not enough. 

I already know my to do list won't be completed today. Too many items, not enough time. The daily struggle. A never ending circle- round and round. Maybe there is not enough time or...maybe there are just too many things to do. 

Regardless, come 9:00 PM tonight the remaining of today's to do's will be moved to tomorrow. And tomorrow again, the clock will run out. To do's pushed again. Only for more to stack up. And there I'll be fighting against time itself to get it all done.