Things I Do #7: I cut corners

In my relentless, obsessive desire to get ahead and be productive, I purposely try to cut every corner in every hallway to shorten the distance between two points and perhaps recapture a little lost time.

This is ridiculous, of course. Unless I am walking an endless array of hallways for hours and hours, the fractional seconds that I am saving by cutting these corners will never amount to anything.

Then again, over the course of a lifetime, they will add up. These fractions of a second, combined over years and years, will add up to a significant amount of time. Unfortunately, these fractions of a second can never be added up in any practical sense and used as one large chunk; therefore, they will always remain tiny, useless fragments.

Still, I do it. And it feels right. And therein lies the crazy.