A Work In Progress

A work-in-progress is a business terms and refers to the raw materials that are in the progress of being improved or having financial value added to them.  Once that value has been added they are referred to a finished goods and are no longer a work-in-progress.

Our lives are works-in-progress as they move from one hour to the next, one day to the next, one week to the next, one month...  one year...  one decade...  and, then finally one lifetime where are bodies are destroyed in some humane fashion and our souls disappear forever.

Our heath, especially when one is sick, are works-in-progress...  and, while some of us improve, others will not and many of us will continue to be works-in-progress for the rest of our natural lives...  always having value being added to us in the terms of treatments and medicines.

But, works-in-progress can damn near be considered anything...  for example:

• preparing a meal
• eating a meal
• painting a room
• mowing the lawn
• going to school
• taking a vacation
• preparing one's taxes
• writing a text
• answering a phone call

We don't think about it very often but works-in-progress are all around us all the time and yesterday when I took my cat to the Vet, our work-in-progress lasted over 90 minutes waiting in the car because the Vets had been interrupted by several emergencies....   and, emergencies always take priority over other works-in-progress no matter how long others might have to wait.

I spent some time last June/July (I cannot remember which month it was) in the ER and my work-in-progress took priority over the others potential patients who were waiting.  I had a staph infection, very low blood pressure, afib, heart and kidney failure...  and, if my arrival had been several minutes later, then there is a very good possibility I would not be alive to write about it.

And...  while that work-in-progress is over, I have other works-in-progress with which the doctors and I must deal on a daily but mostly monthly basis.