Article March 6, 1995 Issue

Agenda completed? Or Life—complete?

Joanne Forman Otto

Deadlines . Checklists. How they seem to dominate our lives today. And how we seem to live for those moments when the work (or at least the workweek) is finished and we can enjoy a few hours of freedom from these things.

Do we have to live with this hectic pattern? Must we resign ourselves to drudgery, stress, and postponed fulfillment? Or is there a way out?

I unexpectedly came across a very useful answer to these questions when looking up the word complete. A dictionary offered these two thought-provoking definitions: "possessing all necessary parts, items, components, or elements" and "brought to an end, concluded."

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