Procrastination

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Saturday … day off before the long haul back to compensated work, and here I am.  Back to cramming!  Where exactly did all my so called loosely-structured time go?  All the well-intentioned time appropriation for that and this project … gone.  Time has not stood still.

Six weeks ago, I told myself that my burgeoning personal closet must take front and center treatment.  I had hopes of purging items of clothing in my hanging rack, but attachment to them – a rationalization of mine, pushed the plan aside.  The same happened to a dozen pairs of shoes that could benefit some charity.  They still rest on the shelves.  They are there – ‘sitting as pretty’ as they came.  Was that two years ago … or more, that I told myself was something I wanted to do with them?  And those trinkets, odds and ends that really must get out of drawers are also still in there! 

That predicament is no one else’s fault but mine, I know.  I have kept personal projects aside and allowed all sorts of influences to crowd about them.  What of those sensible … senseless (?) stacks of documents in the shed and in bookshelves?  I promised to sort and diligently look at them one more time, but there they are still … back in the back of things … still waiting, calling a bit louder, now demanding time! 

In two other storage areas, souvenir and gift items are stacked without any order of importance.  They’re thrown there and told to get comfy until time gets available for classifying them.  Like many other things in pile, they are crying out for equal attention … and again, time.  In yet another six weeks, they must get organized in some fashion and assigned a certain destination. 

Is there anything worse than procrastination?  

No, there isn’t.  When we do not act on a task before us, it gawks at us and reminds incessantly that it is there like an elephant.  It doesn’t hide, it laughs loud.  It doesn’t leave as a stranger who has abused its welcome.  It is like pain that keeps one awake all day.  It is just there staring at us straight in the eye.  It’s like a dark cloud hovering over us … waiting to drop and get us quickly drenched at a time we don’t really want to get soaked.   When we postpone what needs action, it’s an opportunity lost.  When we put off communication, it’s a lost message.  When we delay a decision, someone can possibly get hurt.    There’s nothing more difficult to recover than time or action postponed.  Stalling, delaying, putting off something that could be done today, here and now, does no one any good.   Procrastination – you are wicked!

Where do I go from here, you ask?  Get going!