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Like Larynxa, I have a bunch of strategies I can use to be on time when I have to, but it’s a lot of work, and I go through cycles with it.
Sometimes, it starts to seem like all my free time gets filled up with backup planning, worrying about what might go wrong, and playing tapes in my head of friends and family expressing their frustration with my lateness. At some point I literally get sick about it, and I just run out of steam. It seems like life is too short to spend more time planning for the event than the actual event is worth to me.
Sadly, I start to get shy of making any time committments with people because I don’t feel like I’m up to the huge amount of planning it will take to follow through on it properly. This has led to isolation. I’d rather do things by myself because then if I’m behind schedule it won’t effect anyone but me.
Now, newly medicated, I wonder how to strike the right balance between isolation vs. an overflowing calendar of potential disappointments… I’m still not anyone you would set your watch by, that’s for sure!
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