Why We Are Reluctant To Do Hard Work
Janina Gomes
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Hard work requires discipline, persistence, the ability to stay with and overcome difficulties, and a strong desire to accomplish one's goals. In today's world pleasure seeking has become paramount. As long as it is good sailing, and we receive incentives and rewards, the more willing we are to put in extra hours, extra effort and extra zest into what we are doing. Unfortunately, life does not work like that all the time.There are experiences of gruelling work, boredom, repetitive tasks, frustration whilst doing chores and the need to earn a livelihood that compel us to choose to remain at the till.We live in a civilisation that makes the human body look for comfort and ease, the mind to remain really unchallenged, allows emotions to swing from good to bad and vice versa and creates a plethora of choices that make us feel we can rule the world with the minimum of effort on our part.
On the other hand, problems are so complex today, work has become so demanding, that unless we are prepared to literally sweat it out, we might get nowhere.
Teaching can throw at us many challenges. My experiences working with and teaching orphan children meant that i had to be alert and alive when i most wanted to sit comfortably in a chair and do things my way. But, the children would not allow me to get lazy. In the middle of a hot morning, they wanted to get up and play-act or dance, sometimes up on the terrace, dragging me along to participate with them. Teaching the hearing impaired and mute was strenuous and physically hard on me, too.
Whilst teaching reading to those who were not able to pronounce words correctly, i had to repeat drills, teach them to enunciate words and read with expression. That demanded a lot of work that sometimes, i was reluctant to take up either because i was shying away from hard work or i had underestimated the difficulties of teaching. And so it is with life. Life does not bring us comfort and ease. It throws at us challenges and responsibilities that force us to continue even if we reach a point where we think we go on any further. Sickness and cannot go on any further. Sickness and disabilities bring us trials when we think we deserve a little rest. But life is a race that runs along and we have to run with it or be left trailing behind.
Who said becoming a champion is easy? We only look at the master strokes and mastery that people have gained over a job or task. We know very little about the long hard hours of work that went into turning out masters.
The discipline, hard work, the courage to continue in the face of challenges that extract the most out of us will make us warriors. By our hard work, we are laying the groundwork for reaching heights. We have to carry on, often alone. Effort and work in the present will lead us to a better future where work becomes worship.Worship is not easy either, because it is also hard work and effort. But God's grace flows without impediment to those who work hard without stressing about the outcome.
On the other hand, problems are so complex today, work has become so demanding, that unless we are prepared to literally sweat it out, we might get nowhere.
Teaching can throw at us many challenges. My experiences working with and teaching orphan children meant that i had to be alert and alive when i most wanted to sit comfortably in a chair and do things my way. But, the children would not allow me to get lazy. In the middle of a hot morning, they wanted to get up and play-act or dance, sometimes up on the terrace, dragging me along to participate with them. Teaching the hearing impaired and mute was strenuous and physically hard on me, too.
Whilst teaching reading to those who were not able to pronounce words correctly, i had to repeat drills, teach them to enunciate words and read with expression. That demanded a lot of work that sometimes, i was reluctant to take up either because i was shying away from hard work or i had underestimated the difficulties of teaching. And so it is with life. Life does not bring us comfort and ease. It throws at us challenges and responsibilities that force us to continue even if we reach a point where we think we go on any further. Sickness and cannot go on any further. Sickness and disabilities bring us trials when we think we deserve a little rest. But life is a race that runs along and we have to run with it or be left trailing behind.
Who said becoming a champion is easy? We only look at the master strokes and mastery that people have gained over a job or task. We know very little about the long hard hours of work that went into turning out masters.
The discipline, hard work, the courage to continue in the face of challenges that extract the most out of us will make us warriors. By our hard work, we are laying the groundwork for reaching heights. We have to carry on, often alone. Effort and work in the present will lead us to a better future where work becomes worship.Worship is not easy either, because it is also hard work and effort. But God's grace flows without impediment to those who work hard without stressing about the outcome.
