Once something is done, you can build on it. Once you get started, momentum can grow. When you show up, you can get lucky.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful
…lately i’ve been thinking about the definition of done, completed, finished, ended, dead, resolved, closed, etc. …all seem to have the same meaning but there i see little nuance differences… ‘finished’ feels crafted, ‘ended’ feels abrupt, ‘dead’ is final with no sequel, ‘resolved’ implies there was tension, ‘closed’ is bureaucratic… but ‘done’… done leaves room… in turkish i catch myself choosing ‘tamamladım’ over ‘bitirdim’… one means i made it whole… the other means i made it stop…
i wonder if there’s a better or even a closer version for english, for the same meaning “i made it whole”?