Procrastination

Lately, I have been accused of procrastination, be it in completing work on time or doing something more worthwhile and important as getting the refrigerator's eight year old stabilizer repaired. I cite to "inspiration" as my one reason for pushing every thing ahead in time. I keep telling everyone that I am not just inspired or motivated enough to do something at the moment. Some people buy it, some don't, most accept it as their fate, very few fight back. And fight back they do..

To begin with I do not procrastinate (too complicated a word), I just say that I'll do it later (a simpler way of saying it), and secondly, there is nothing wrong in living for the moment. This brings me to the question, why do I procrastinate, which then brings me to a larger philanthropic question "why do people procrastinate?"

Well... the answer is pretty simple. You are expecting people to do something very boring; and when you further bore them by accusing them of being a procrastinating being, people just refuse to do it, unless of course there is a complete submission to the authority. I mean why would you want people to do something that they do not enjoy. Isn't life too short, and complicated enough already for you to expect us to do something tedious? I think the reason "you's" want "us's" to engage in tedious activities is because "you's" are just too darn lazy to do it yourself in the first place. I think that "you's" find the activity too taxing, and feel that it is easy to accuse people like me of procrastination rather than doing it yourself. If Mahatma Gandhi were like you - just accused other people of not fighting for the independence - we would not be an "in dependent" country today. If he were alive today, I am positive that Mahatma Gandhi would have the stabilizer repaired himself rather than ask his followers to do it. He did not accuse any one of anything, let alone of procrastination.

A thought for Non-Procrastinators :

"One should always be self sufficient, give, but do not take, do not mock others' helplessness." - ME

Scottish Gaelic Phrase V. 2.0

"Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir?" (Kaw uhn KEU-ra shin KAW-la root uh CHOO-nik mee uhn-royer?) "Who was that sheep I saw you with last night?"

"Cha b'e sin caora, 'se sin mo chèile a bha innte!" (Chah beh shin KEU-ra, sheh shin moe CHYEH-luh uh vah EEN-tchuh!) "That was no sheep, that was my spouse!"