Thinking before acting

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Today I was trying to cook dinner. Put some cut mangoes, taro cake, and tempeh on the table. Then noticed that the floor wet. Wiped floor with a towel and shook the towel. ... But debris came out and I thought some debris got into my dinner and if I ate it I would have gotten sick. Threw away my dinner.

So absent-minded lately

It's like my brain "executive processing dysfunction"

I'm a bit slap dash me
Don't put much thought into anything I do

But saying that I don't know if it's possible to ever cover each and every eventuality

Well we all make mistakes don't we? And at least you didn't eat the food, which might have been a bigger mistake.

I put a lot into thinking before acting, probably because I'm naturally clumsy, but it gets boring so I sometimes haven't got the patience and I just go for it. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't.

It's probably why I hate being rushed. I need time to make sure I'm not going to screw up. I'm quite proud of my track record for getting things right, when some impatient bugger (self included) isn't rushing me.

I should try and get a happy medium

I don't really like putting too much thought into things though because it becomes too thoughtful

And you've got the bruises to prove it.

Yeah it's true that actually

As a person who grew up super poor, let me assure you that you would not have gotten sick by floor bits in your food. You'd only get sick if you ate something you were allergic to, something significantly spoiled, something with actual feces in it, or something with a great deal of undiluted chemical cleaner in it.

But it's good that you are clean.