Dragging Your Feet at the Same Pace as Everyone Else

"The world keeps turning, still we drag our feet" — Do More Than Enough

Between the school run, the work deadlines, and whatever's currently broken around the house, "the world keeps turning" can start to feel like a description of everything happening TO you rather than anything you're actively steering. This line names that exact drag — moving, but not quite keeping pace with what's actually needed.

Busy and Dragging Your Feet Aren't Opposites

It's entirely possible to be genuinely exhausted, constantly moving, and still be dragging your feet on the things that actually matter long-term. Busy with the urgent doesn't automatically mean progress on the important — those are two different categories of effort, and adult life has a way of filling up entirely with the first one.

Why Everyone Seems to Be at the Same Pace

Part of what makes the dragging feel normal is that most people around you are doing it too — the same school-run rhythm, the same deferred decisions, the same "we'll deal with that next year." Shared pace makes a slow pace feel like the default rather than a choice.

Noticing the Drag Is the First Actual Step

Most people don't decide to drag their feet — it just accumulates, unnoticed, underneath the daily busyness. Naming it, the way this line does, is a small but real move: it turns an invisible default into something that can actually be looked at and changed.

A Song Built Around Exactly This

There's a song called Do More Than Enough that opens on exactly this feeling — the world turning, and the sense of not quite keeping pace with what actually matters. You can hear it here: https://iadult.com.au/listen/do-more-than-enough