Yes, we meant to blog regularly. Everyone does and then work, studies or other more demanding things in life start taking more and more of our time and energy away.
In this time and age, every day has a dateline, a time limit. When the job is done and over, there are just more datelines to meet. Blogging just fades away in the priority list.
The same could be said of almost every other thing in life without a dateline. As long as no one is pushing for it, the task is likely left undone until it can no longer be ignored.
And yet, there are many busy people that maintain very active blogs for years. Some of those I follow could post -very- lengthy essays regularly. What is our problem really?
I think we’re just really huge procrastinators. Ever took one of the facebook quizzes or email quizzes on what’s your sin? My money for the top answer would probably be Sloth. There are probably worse sins like greed. Who doesn’t have wants? We want to be something, we want to have achievements. Even the basic want of tangible objects requires money. But we’re probably too lazy to make an effort to be satisfy the greed. We do enough to make ourselves temporarily happy and no further.
It’s not that everyone is a procrastinator. It just happens to be a majority. Life is so much easier if we were to open Excuses 101 and find a line to ease ourselves every now and then. Perhaps it is the people we hang out with that makes us laze. I for one see that a lot of my friends are too lazy to make progress for ourselves, myself included. Every small progress we make is considered a big milestone when we should ask ourselves, are we really doing enough?
The efforts I see being made are primarily spent on enjoyment. Either gaming, beautifying ourselves, engaging in social activities or just doing nothing. And yet when I talk to any one of them about our current state of life, we find ourselves unfulfilled. No matter how much we spend money on clothes or time on gaming, when time marches on and we look back, we feel we’ve accomplished nothing much…
And yet we do not change.. We continue this lifestyle… Because it is much easier. Change is a hard task to achieve. Harder still, is the task of maintaining the change. It is so easy to fall back to our old ways, our old lifestyle…
Perhaps if everyone around us changed together, we might not be so negligent on our goals and aspirations. When our close ones progress and we are left behind, perhaps then we will wake up and start to change with them. But how… How can the first change commence…