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Better late than never
There's a specific kind of embarrassment that comes with missing a deadline. As it gets closer and closer to I find myself trying to justify why I just shouldn’t bother and skip whatever it is. Then the guilt starts to slowly creep its way in, and I can’t stop thinking about it until I finally cross it off the to-do list. So why not just do it on time?
Here's what I've been thinking about since: I used to conflate "doing it right" with "doing it on time." Like lateness was its own kind of failure, inseparable from the thing itself. So if I missed the window, I'd written off the whole task. Easier to just let it lapse than to show up with a timestamp that felt like an admission.
Doing it late wasn't perfect. But not doing it at all would have been a choice I made for no reason except that I was embarrassed about a different choice I'd already made. That's a bad reason.
Sometimes the move is just to show up.
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🌑 Encounter
The door was never locked. You realize this only now, standing in front of it. The handle is cold. The hinges move without resistance. Inside, the room is exactly as you left it — or exactly as you imagined it, which might be the same thing. A small table. A single chair. Whatever you were supposed to bring, there's an empty space on the table where it would go.
What will you do?
Set it down and say nothing — Gain 2 HP
Take a moment to explain yourself, even though no one's here — Gain 2 XP
Sit in the chair before you leave — Gain 1 AP
Drop it on the table without looking and walk out fast — Lose 1 AP
Second-guess yourself at the threshold and pull back — the door latches behind you — Lose 2 HP
Leave a note alongside it — No effect
