“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
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Nice. As someone who did a lot of theater in my youth, I can relate to the first blocking rehearsal, when the director places actors in the places they will occupy in weeks' time when the curtain comes up. In one of his earliest novels, Mother Night, Vonnegut said, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Spot the fuck on.