The year I said yes to everything

For one year I accepted everything: every invitation, every favor asked, every “you should come.” It was an experiment, then a habit, then a problem.

The good: two friendships I’d never have made, a trip that became the best week of the year, and the discovery that most fear of commitment is just fear of scheduling.

The bad: I was tired for a year, and some yeses were really noes wearing a nicer shirt. The experiment ended when I fell asleep at a dinner I had been excited about for weeks. Now I say yes slower and mean it more.