because the point isn’t the tasks, it is to stay in constant motion
I might have to relax my promises to myself, those superstitious announcements of plans that did not, in any sphere broader than the confines of my own mind, matter... Lazy, lazy, lazy: I heard this chorus in my head at most times of the day if I tuned in to that channel, breaking through the static to catch it like you can catch good college radio stations in between the dials, hidden between alt-country and the Jesus station, just peeking through. You’re lazy, you’re lazy, you’re lazy... She doesn’t want to work smarter/not harder, because the point isn’t the tasks, it is to stay in constant motion.
— Margo Steines, "Brutalities: A Love Story" (W. W. Norton & Company, October 3, 2023)
