My to-do list has developed its own to-do list and I think I'm losing control of the situation.

The news will still be a disaster in an hour. Go outside first.

The coffee is hot. The morning is survivable.

My body at 40+ is basically a Kickstarter project that funded successfully but the delivery timeline was a lie.

My emotional unavailability is not a flaw, it is a feature I am slowly patching in updates.