Stop Going Down the Rabbit Hole

Seriously!

You might call this a hole; to them, it’s a burrow—photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash.

The metaphor, “going down the rabbit hole,” is oftentimes meant as spending a lot of time on an activity or project, perhaps more than you had intended. Getting sucked into something. (Kind of like I got sucked into Quora today, wasting two whole hours!)

I’m in another one now, as a story I’ve been working on really needs to be split into three. To me, it’s a clusterfuck, which is what many probably want to say. But a rabbit hole is more palatable.

Because of my clusterfuck (yeah, I know, not palatable), I’m not churning out any work. But it didn’t take long to come up with something I could whip up fast. If these other people on Medium say they can write and publish three stories in a day, surely I can manage one.

This morning, as I usually do, I read as much as possible. Nearly four hours in all, you could say I went down a rabbit hole. I don’t call it that, but I came across its use three times on Medium in that time. That’s when I said to myself, “enough is enough”!

Grammar

On a scale of 1–10, I‘d put myself in the 6+/7 range compared to others who speak and write English. However, being in that range could put me in the upper 20-percentile of all English-speaking people, based on what I see and read elsewhere. Grammarly has helped a…