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# This is what we do
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/this-is-what-we-do/
- Published: 2025-12-12T07:00:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-12T07:00:40.000Z
- Description: A very simple cartoon that sums up the entire human experience… when we let the mind run riot 🐄
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Comics, Psychology, Quick insight, Thought realisation, Consciousness, MECHANICS, Presence

They say a picture paints a thousand words, which is why the other day, after having written 1,398 of the aforementioned words, talking about the insidious human trait of *‘*[*I'll be happy when…*](https://www.gilespcroft.com/ill-be-happy-when/)*’,* I spent ages rifling through my daughter's Calvin & Hobbes books to find a suitable [visual metaphor](https://www.gilespcroft.com/not-living-life-now/) for you, to make it more memorable.

Should have just waited.

Because of course, scrolling idly through twitter yesterday, I came across this – the simplest, most perfect image that sums it all up.

When I said, *“…a pithy little cartoon to depict this for you”* – **this** is exactly what I had in mind! (Although I've never seen it before. It's *almost* as if you switch your radar on for something, and it comes to you. 🤷🏻‍♂️)

I laughed out loud as soon as I saw it.

It's as memorable as they come.

It will stay with you, and surface in memory at just the right time – when you catch yourself doing it.

(You could even print it off and leave it somewhere, as a simple reminder.)

**This is what we do**; what we can spend an entire *life* doing, if we're not careful:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2025/12/2025-12-12-This-is-what-we-do.JPG)

Nobody knows whence it came. But it's here now. For you. Acting as a warning.

That's it, right there. A cow. Expressing the human condition.

🐄

Giles

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[Not living life, nowIf we spend all our time with our attention on that fabled ‘better tomorrow’, you know what we miss out on? 🤨![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/icon/DR_Lockup-Black-3-131.png)The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/thumbnail/photo-1578687388475-47f94962f6e4-1.jpeg)](https://www.gilespcroft.com/not-living-life-now/)

More simple than 1,398 words, but not as simple as this.