Buzzing on your own brilliance at finding the answer to all of your problems, your true calling in life and, basically, frigging nirvana, you are desperate to wake your beloved, who is lying beside you, blissfully unaware that their world is about to be rocked. You think about waking them because you can’t contain all this excitement alone and need to share it, but it’s only 6 am and you know from experience that this wouldn’t end well. So you sit, fidgeting, watching the clock until 6:30 am. Surely, that’s late enough? Perhaps if you bring them coffee, they won’t be so mad. Yet how could they be mad, when what you’re about to reveal to them will make them say: ‘Why didn’t you wake me up sooner, you genius?’
But as you sit impatiently waiting for an acceptable hour to rouse your beloved and blow their mind, your whole self shifts sideways, like someone just turned the TV over to another channel or a changeling took over your mind. You suddenly realise that your previously designated Best Idea Ever is full of holes and is actually a Terrible Idea. You are puzzled that you didn’t see this sooner. What were you thinking? You can’t move house because your kids are in school here, you have a full-time job and…
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