The Delusion of Work

In my experiences with life, I have found many ways we use trying to avoid doing work. These may be intentional, may be not. There are times when we can recognize that we are feeling particularly lazy or not in the mood to do something. In such condition, all we have to do is to produce excuses for the world. But we know that we are just being lazy. There is no other real reason.

And there are other conditions. When we want to be busy. When we want to be doing something. It’s just that this ‘something’ does not match with the task we have at hand. So what do we do? We create delusion of working. Like I am creating right now.

When I looked hard enough, I found an interesting array of excuses we use for fooling ourselves. Like waiting. For next morning, next Monday, next month, next year etc. Or we try to come up with more important tasks. If we can’t find them, we make them up! If nothing else works, suddenly we have an urge of getting everything in order. Then we go for unimportant tasks which were pending for months, like cleaning the room. One other option is to realize the importance of small things in life, like reading newspapers.

Why do we have to do all this? Why can’t we just accept “I don’t want to do this and I would rather sleep than doing this!”. Reason is – we know the importance of the task in hand. We know, in one way or other, we have to do it. But we just want to justify not doing it to ourselves. And in my experience, that always leads to bitter results.

So when you feel like giving excuses to yourself, just don’t! If you only need to give excuses to others, it’s okay J