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What It's Like Having A Calendar Inside Your Head

My brain has a built-in planner.

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What It's Like Having A Calendar Inside Your Head
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I feel like my brain is a calendar and planner 90 percent of the time. While someone is talking to me I am constantly racking my brain trying to figure out what I have to do next. I don’t mean to, and I definitely don’t always want to, but it is a never ending process.

I always know what I have going on during the day down to the minute. I even know what my friends have going on during the day because when they tell me it automatically goes on my “planner” in my head. No matter what I am doing I always am worried about what time I have to be doing my next thing on my calendar.

“If you’re on time then you’re late, and if you’re early then you’re on time!”

I don’t know how often I heard my dad say that growing up and now I live by that quote. I never show up late to anything if I can help it. Because of the planner in my brain I definitely plan out backwards from when I have to be somewhere all the way to when I have to start getting ready. I even allow extra time for unforeseen happenings, such as traffic, spilling something on my shirt, or losing my keys. Oh, and I can’t forget to make sure I have time to walk to and from the vehicle to my destination. Seriously, my mind plans by the minute.

Making plans with my friends is super easy, yet really hard. When we try to make plans I know every day of the week with what I have going on so it is easy to figure out what days I can do something. However, since I know every detail of my week it fills up super quickly so I always seem busy.

I am definitely the person that gets nominated to plan when we go places, but it makes me happy to do that, so I am always okay with it.

The fact that my brain might as well be a calendar or a planner satisfies my love for having plans and schedules. Some people don’t enjoy having their day planned out by the minute, but I am so thankful that God made my brain to function in this way. Sometimes it can be stressful, but I always know that my life is together and I have nothing to worry about on being late to anything.

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