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Doing a Thing

Jariya (Riya) Goerwitz

I’m going to do a thing. I don’t know what thing, and maybe I’ve already done it. But the thing—that is, the thing yet to be determined or the thing already in motion—will be done someday. I can almost guarantee it, but don’t take my word for it. And maybe “someday” is today or tomorrow or the next day or the fifth Tuesday of Novemberuary—it doesn’t actually matter. All I know is if the thing is done today or simply started today or even just thought about once—fleetingly—in a moment that lasts somewhere in the space of zero to one second, it will be enough. The exact amount of time that is or will be spent dwelling on the thing doesn’t actually matter. What matters is something is going to get done someday. And that for once, finally, I’ve found the energy to at least start moving towards achieving anything. So it doesn’t matter exactly how many moments at a time I spend thinking or doing or how long each of those moments last, just so long as I can keep racking them up to reach the end. And that may not happen today, or tomorrow, or next week (and it definitely won’t happen on the fifth Tuesday of Novembruary), but it will happen. I can almost guarantee it.

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