It's a hard knock Life
If we would switch perspectives and talk to each other we would see that everyone around us is procrastinating. We never recognize it, because people normally procrastinate when they are alone or feel out of sight. We know our bad habit of wasting time only inwardly and see productive people outwardly. The gap between our ambition and the output we create becomes bigger and bigger. However drawing a much more realistic picture about how others really work and which struggles they come across would help us see things more clearly and recognize that others have the same problems as we do and that procrastination is not a unique or unusual problem that is reserved for us and for us only.
In our modern digitalized world work became our new cult, our new religion. It is a measurement where the outside can distinguish the good productive people from the lazy ones. But the source for our new wealth and the tool for personal optimization and growth is also the entrance to most of the distraction we face: THE INTERNET. We nowadays have just got more opportunities to get distracted and procrastinate.
In short, there is no super efficient person. Someone who we consider as successful, is someone who focused their potential on a certain amount of challenges in their life but there are much more things that this person didn’t have done. Could bet that in some areas this person appears really lazy.
In our western world we have a strong belief that hard work and effort will root automatically in success. The narration has no space for someone just being inspired and writing a book that looks as easy as we could have written it ourselves.Someone who works hard must be a good person, everyone else is a fraud. If only we could work harder and stop procrastinating we would be able to achieve everything, but we are here, missing out the inevitable truth: working harder and spending hours of your lifetime optimising yourself is no guarantee for success and sometimes isn’t enough. Sometimes talent and a bit of laziness seem to be the better approach.
A full-scale replica of Bacon's studio can be found today in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. His studio reflects the inner state of mind of the painter, who created extraordinary works of art.
While for some people procrastination is just a method to take a little time for themselves and their hobbies, others suffer from massive feelings of guilt. They often procrastinate because of the fear of huge tasks, which seem to be unfeasible. In these cases even the spare time resulting from postponing tasks can’t be enjoyed. The pressure of tasks is always present and the ideal image of being a productive part of society further increases the stress level. Especially students in higher semesters suffer from depression resulting from procrastination. This is shown by the experience of psychotherapeutic counseling centers at universities. A study also showed that students with higher levels of anxiety and depression engage in more negative repetitive thought, which may contribute to procrastinatory behavior. All of us are postponing tasks to a certain level and it has no big effect on our mental health. But for others procrastination seems to be a vicious circle from which there is hardly any way out.
