Falling through the cracks

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Every once n a while there are things that not get done because they have fallen through the cracks. On average those are things that are not that important in the grand scheme of things ~ however at some point in time most of them do need some attention. They need to get done.

Thinking about that it brings a series of interesting picture to mind... Starting with the question ‘What crack are they falling through precisely?’
The picture of big fishing nets works up to a point. The smallest fish that can escape through the spaces in the netting were never meant to get caught ~ so for them to disappear is a good thing!
The picture of a crack in the floor through which things can fall down seems a better visual. Although the things that might fall through a crack like that are usually small, yet not always unimportant.
And as I see those type of pictures in my mind’s eye, I can’t help but wonder ~ a crack in time; what does that look like?

Because that is what is happening. The things that do not get done have a tendency to fall through a crack in time. We didn’t have time to give them the attention they needed at that moment; they didn’t get done. Physically they still linger, waiting for us to ‘make time’ to handle them. Uhm... Making time?

On one hand all of this has to do with scheduling, with commitments, and ultimately with the choices we make.
On the other hand, it brings up these questions about ‘time’. How we use it, deal with it, view it. And how things fall through the cracks when somehow the things we have scheduled and actual time don’t match up. And, possibly through the tension this brings about, a rift occurs. A crack in time through which the less important things disappear.

They disappear from our schedule; they disappear from our view. But do they truly disappear, and if so where to?
To another point in time? To another universe?
And if so, what happens with them there?

It is to some extend a philosophical question.
We don’t seem to be totally aware of all the implications of how ‘time’ works.

That being said, it does seem true that the more time (and energy) we spend on things that already have happened ~ on the past ~ or on thing that are not yet ‘in their proper time’ ~ so they are still in our future ~ the shorter our time in this moment seems to be.
And the easier it gets for things to disappear through that rift in time; for things to fall through the cracks...
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