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No dragon left
17 years ago
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I'm sorry to everyone.
Every day I work late into the night until I pass out.
No matter how hard I try, I can't keep up with my commitments.
Every item I manage to cross off my todo list is replaced by two more.
Friends call. They each want me to make more commitments for them. They want me to host them at the new house for some days. Or they want me to do something for them. Or at least call them back at a particular time.
One more straw will break the camel's back.
I woke up in the middle of the night last night with my fingers and nose going numb. Skittering on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
I'm sorry. I really love my friends. I want to visit. I want to do whatever you want me to do. But I'm out of paper for my todo list. There's about three thousand items on it and impossible deadlines for it all. There is no dragon left. There's not enough of me to take on just one more tiny little teeny weenie commitment.
I can't even keep up with the critical commitments I have already. Like trying to find time to pay bills. I've got the money... just not the time to give people the money. They're getting upset.
I feel so bad about it. I imagine my beloved friends think I don't care about them anymore. Maybe they want to come visit to console me. But I still have to be a good host. I must make a commitment to that. Brush my other commitments aside and handle being a host instead.
I can't! I'm sorry! I can't!
They'll turn the lights off if I never find time to pay the electric bills for both houses.
I keep disappointing everyone.
I'm sorry.
There's just no dragon left.
Every day I work late into the night until I pass out.
No matter how hard I try, I can't keep up with my commitments.
Every item I manage to cross off my todo list is replaced by two more.
Friends call. They each want me to make more commitments for them. They want me to host them at the new house for some days. Or they want me to do something for them. Or at least call them back at a particular time.
One more straw will break the camel's back.
I woke up in the middle of the night last night with my fingers and nose going numb. Skittering on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
I'm sorry. I really love my friends. I want to visit. I want to do whatever you want me to do. But I'm out of paper for my todo list. There's about three thousand items on it and impossible deadlines for it all. There is no dragon left. There's not enough of me to take on just one more tiny little teeny weenie commitment.
I can't even keep up with the critical commitments I have already. Like trying to find time to pay bills. I've got the money... just not the time to give people the money. They're getting upset.
I feel so bad about it. I imagine my beloved friends think I don't care about them anymore. Maybe they want to come visit to console me. But I still have to be a good host. I must make a commitment to that. Brush my other commitments aside and handle being a host instead.
I can't! I'm sorry! I can't!
They'll turn the lights off if I never find time to pay the electric bills for both houses.
I keep disappointing everyone.
I'm sorry.
There's just no dragon left.
Bottomline: you'll manage. I'm sure you will.
Take a break.
Stop doing stuff for a while.
If your friend are real friends, they'll understand that.
And pay the bills.
It's not quitting that is the best option in the end here. That is just a temporary relief. It's the balance between giving others your time and keeping some for yourself.
If we can help with that in any way, let us know. :)
*hugs hard* I have something in the works for you, btw. I need to finish it. You need more YOU time and stuff. :)
As for bills, you could look into setting auto payments either directly, or with your bank, for all the monthly, recurrent ones.
Stop being sorry, everyone (who has any sense) knows all about Real Life, stop trying to please everyone else and just get what ya need, we will still be here supportin ya....
--Shadow
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