By necessity, I think I’ve gotten pretty good at multi-tasking. That’s not to say that I do things well when I'm multi-tasking. What I mean is I’ve gotten pretty good at the mechanics of doing more than one thing at the same time, even though none of them end up being done as well as they might if I was able to focus on them individually.
But sometimes a little is too much, like the metaphorical straw that broke the camel’s back. It’s never straw that breaks the camel’s back, it’s whatever else has been piled on there before that was already just the weight of a straw away from the breaking point.
That’s how it works. You can adeptly handle one crisis after another, absorb blow after blow, and start feeling invincible. Then a little annoyance that you probably wouldn’t even otherwise notice becomes too much.
At least in my case, that’s because the big stuff commands all the attention. That’s the stuff that requires a plan, or at least provides a warning. But the next thing you know, some unexpected little detail, or task, or notification pops up. The annoyance, the frustration is usually not because of the issue itself, but because of the surprise.
When you’re trying to protect yourself from a big punch, you don’t brace for a tap on the shoulder, but that’s the one that knocks you down.
That’s what breaks the camel’s back.
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