Negligence is terrible.

 

Negligence is obviously ineffective. This much is self-evident.

You don’t get the things done, and you don’t get the things done well, if you neglect them.

If you are doing something — either put DUE effort into it, or put NO effort.

 

It is obvious yet we are almost never capable of this basic logical rigour. If your goal is X, you DO what is DUE to get X DONE, yes? Well, usually, we don’t.

I am bringing this up for it would seem this ambition-driven world would be capable of at least being effective.

It’s not.

 

Now, I am not ambition-driven. I am probably going to die. I enjoy the warmth of the sun, the sound of the birds singing, the spell of the springtime.

Still, negligence is terrible.

It is not only waste of the effort you barely summoned.

It is a terrible, terrible waste of SPACE.

It’s a DISGRACEFUL waste of COGNITIVE LOAD.

There’s negligence in action — such as not exerting due effort — and there is psychological negligence — such as NOT RESOLVING THE PROBLEM INTERNALLY.

The latter is far more malicious then the former.

All the “things unfinished”, all the “future plans”, all the doubts and second- thoughts and the problems ignored and pains unreleased – all this MOUNTS ENDLESSLY, grows endlessly, gains WEIGHT endlessly, until you can no longer MOVE… until you are basically DEAD. You are motionless. You are psychologically motionless — i.e. you are DEAD. You basically died, even before your body did.

 

Spiritual ignorance is ultimately that VIRULENT.

It springs from the mere psychological negligence.

This negligence will first manifest itself in stress and confusions, but it can ultimately overgrow into a bona fide psychological illness.

 

Get rid of negligence already.

Get rid of it in your work. Either do things or forget things.

More importantly – obliterate psychological negligence. When decisions need to be made, when doubts arise, when fears commence — NEVER RUN AWAY FROM IT. Be with it, study it, learn from it, and TRANSCEND IT.

It will kill you.