"Sorry, I'm useless."

My most used phrase, not waiting to be a better version of ourselves and thinking about future adventures

I say “sorry, I’m useless” so many times each week that I barely even notice it coming out of my mouth anymore. It’s my autopilot response to… everything. It gets wheeled out when I fail to respond to a Whatsapp or email within any kind of acceptable time frame, when I forget to do a basic admin task, when I’m late on a deadline, when I haven’t bought a birthday present.

“Sorry, I’m useless” I say, over and over and over. Maybe I should get it printed on a t-shirt.

I’m not really sure what I’m hoping for as an outcome. I think I’m mainly trying to convey that I know it’s not really okay to take three months to respond to a simple message, that I know it’s not cool to be scatty and disorganised and late with everything constantly. Maybe I think that if I hold my hands up and admit to being useless, it’ll lessen how much other people think it? But I’m sure it’s just annoying, more than anything. In reverse, I’d think: stop apologising and just be less shit. (Actually, that’s not true. I s…