Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots & Anna Kloots

Author:Amanda Kloots & Anna Kloots [Kloots, Amanda & Kloots, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2021-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

I am Type A to my core. By ten a.m., I’d have already had my coffee, cleared my in-box, taught three classes, and returned home. Meanwhile, Nick would still be in bed.

When we first started dating, I noticed he would lie in bed and look at the ceiling for long stretches of time. It boggled my mind whenever I saw it.

What are you doing? I would think. You are wasting so much time. You’ve been there for hours.

Finally, one day I asked him. I had come back at noon from a full morning, and there he was—starring at the ceiling.

“What are you doing?” I exclaimed. “We have a matinee in two hours; you need to get up, shower, and go!”

I was not the first person to notice this.

His family called it “Nick time.” I called it Fantasyland. Regardless, it was a time when Nick just zoned out, forgot about his responsibilities, and got lost in his thoughts. Every creative has a different process—I think Fantasyland was his.

He looked at me in all seriousness and said, “Babes, Fantasyland is important. Everyone needs Fantasyland.”

He missed two matinees during Bullets over Broadway because of Fantasyland. I’m sure there were several creative things that came from Fantasyland, but he never shared them with me. So to me, these periods never made sense, they just seemed to make him late. His family later told me that “Nick time” had caused him to miss countless flights over the years.

Nick did things on his own time; he had his own internal clock.

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