Will I ever get round to it?!?

 


We've all heard of the phrase "put it on the back burner"...well, my back burner is overflowing with things I've put off doing! Even without the bigger things in life, (learn to drive, get in shape, buy a house, etc), I struggle with getting round to doing things. 

If you are one of my close friends then you will know all too well how I happily make plans for us to do certain activities; in most cases I write up a to-do list to remind me of things we plan to do together which has culminated in me having various to-do lists! I genuinely fully intend on sticking to and I look forward to doing those plans but I appear to be fairly inept on arranging actual times and dates, (I love hanging out with friends but hate bothering people so it creates a dilemma when arranging anything as I'm scuppered by my politeness). 

Is everyone like this? Surely we all have little to do lists that get added to every few months or so? I am fairly impulsive which has also meant that I have hundreds of books I need to read and hundreds of films I want to watch which in themselves are mini to-do lists. I realise this is a very first world problem and I'm not even convinced it's a problem really, it's all fun stuff after all. 

I have made plans with various people to go for especially long walks, see an opera, watch a musical, try food I've never tasted, karaoke nights, quiz nights, forest walks and trying various activities I've never attempted before to name but a few things and I have to admit it's nice to know one day we will do at least some of those things, they'll be fun days out and about so perhaps that's ok, it's nice to have something to look forward to. 

I generally stick to things I say I will do - although my "mission" this year to go for a drink/ hang out with friends from my facebook friends list has seemingly failed - that's mainly due to my infernal politeness and not wanting to keep asking and become annoying to folks. 

I once wrote down a comprehensive list of things I'd like to do and it was ridiculously long so I accept that I need to rein it in a bit and be less ambitious. I've held off texting friends for this very reason - I should never drag others into my Neverending to do lists so I've maintained radio silence so I'm learning that certain things take time...and that's ok 

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