Henry J. Young

Authorial Intent Doesn't Matter

daily_070; warm up

There was a boy named Jimmy and a girl named Sue.

Jimmy worked without any kind of warm up, in all things. He got a lot done; projects, lifting, hobbies.

Sue always took 15 minutes to get ready first.

It drove Jimmy nuts.

Then one day, Jimmy snapped his ACL, his boss found critical errors in his project, he was fired, so he didn’t have money for hobbies, so he grew more and more desperate and eventually turned to McDonald’s to pay his credit card bills.

Sue still works at the firm. She sees Jimmy walking through the snow every day, limping along to his minimum wage job, balding at 28 years old.

Warm up before you do anything. If it isn’t worth getting ready for, why are you doing it?

-H.