“Time you enjoy wasting, was not
wasted.”
John Lennon
I
couldn’t agree more with what John had to say in this regard! I
love it. I enjoy doing it alone. I most certainly love having company when
doing it. To me, wasting time feels decedent; like a really fine piece of rich dark chocolate.
I’m
doing it at this very minute, obviously!
The
term most people would use to describe this phenomenon is:
Procrastination* (definition courtesy of Wikipedia) In
accordance with Freud, humans do not prefer negative emotions and handing off a
stressful task until a further date is enjoyable. The concept that humans work
best under pressure provides additional enjoyment and motivation to postponing
a task.[1]
If they gave out degrees (and
I don’t know who “they” would be), I would certainly test out as a highly
qualified candidate for a Ph.D. I am that good at it; it could scare me if I
let it.
I don’t have one lazy bone in
my body but I can always find something more appealing and pleasurable to do than whatever I must. I am that easily lead astray. Plus when crunch time comes, I’m all over it. The heat under my rear end at
such times produces the most incredible multitasking functions and production. Is pressure under fire addicting and is it weird if it's enjoyed?
For instance, today I have a
million and one things to do before people descend here for the weekend;
things I should have on a To-Do list; things that should have been done over
the last few days (like assemble two big things purchased yesterday from Bed,
Bath and Beyond that I thought were of the open and pop up variety. Bummer. No
plans to do it). Wait...I wasn't supposed to be here anyway! Therefore:
It’s hump day. You know what
that means? I still have two more days until I’m really in trouble (I’m kidding. I
don’t get in trouble). And I won't be stressin' about it either!
Instead, I find myself
reading, writing (Hey! Today I wrote two handwritten letters to friends who enjoy
them that way. That counts in the “good things” column!), talking, texting, anything
and everything, etc.
(Don't know what this say about me)
Being completely truthful,
I’m procrastinating even as I write this post due to my very best talent for
which I might even be better. I’m voracious when it comes to it!
Daydreaming.
Daydreaming (definition courtesy of Wikipedia)
is a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a
person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a
visionary fantasy,
especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as
coming to pass, and experienced while awake.[1]
Maybe procrastinating and daydreaming go hand-in-hand. I can't be the only one out there who's like this, can I? Like-mined people UNITE! I’m
going for a bike ride.
*I
picked the definition I liked best, so what?
