Almost made its self into something else, but its to late now

I was going to write a story today on this. I had a vague plot and everything.
Then I got distracted. Now I'm just trying to figure out if the time spent existing in a freer form was equivalent to what I could have created.
I'm not so sure I'm not okay with what I did with my time, regardless of the fact some would consider me wasting my time. I get something out of it, a particular something I have begun to value above a lot else.
Well, I always have, I've just never been able to pin point that fact, for whatever reason.
Ah well.

Quote I found interesting, although out of context its not quite as amazing:
"M. Achille is simply a case and lets himself be brought back to easily accepted ideas" -Nausea by Sartre, pg 68.

The quote stated above pertained to a fictional character who found himself isolated and seemingly going crazy in his own mind, and a doctor approached him with experience of people like him and therefore gave M. Achille the belief he could help him. Sartre was referencing the fact that experience often leads us to generalize and think we know all because we've seen similar cases.
If that makes it any easier to understand the quote.