Mental hurry is a phenomenon that the majority of the world is a victim to.

But this only is the one that the world is the most careless about as well as quite ignorant of.

What, in fact, is mental hurry?

Whatever we are doing, we want to finish it fast; and then relax.

That means, the work in hand is making as well as keeping us either tense or bored.

Or both!

Why? Why on earth?

Simply, we are not enjoying what we are doing!

But then why are we doing it in the first place?

May be, doing that is a compulsion unto us, either technically or psychologically.

When it is a technical compulsion, we may adopt one of the two approaches - first, finish it fast and do something of your choice then; and the second, just do it since you cannot avoid doing it, and so you keep doing it very slow.

In the first case you fall prey to mental hurry whereas in the second, to mental lethargy.

What decides which one will you fall to?

There are two things here - first, your personality; and the second, the urgency of the work.

There are people who adopt the first route of mental hurry often; and there are others who adopt the second route of mental lethargy more often.

But it also depends on the urgency of the work to meet the schedule. You may evade or do it slow in a half-hearted manner, if you can; but if you cannot, your mental disposition will turn to that of mental hurry and you will put all your efforts into it in order to do it as fast as you can (and may be as perfect as you can, turning yourself into a perfectionist too!).

It has happened so, since you did not like doing it.

But then, let us take the other case, i.e., that of psychological compulsion. Here you are doing a thing simply because you like doing it.

We still do it fast. I mean, with an attitude of mental hurry!

Why this time too?

Simply because liking a thing does not let us enjoy doing it!

Sounds paradoxical. No?

But it is not.

Liking and enjoying are two opposite phenomena.

Liking comes from memory which is always past.

We want to repeat something, which we have a pleasant memory of.

Why do we want to repeat it?

Because we did not enjoy it then, in its totality!

What does totality mean?

Totality means being so focused while doing a thing that everything else is forgotten. Everything!

You will enjoy it in its totality.

And it will not leave a mark on your psychological memory.

In other words, you will neither like it nor dislike.

Enjoying is the anti-dote of liking and disliking.

If liking is the reason of doing, you are simply trying to complete an unfulfilled task of the past and hence, you are doomed to be in a mental hurry to complete it this time.

But we miserably fail since mental hurry, in itself, stops us from enjoying it this time too!

Mental hurry can only turn us greedy. It can never turn us joyful.

Or the other way round, greed (or liking! - by the same token disliking is fear!) will always push us toward mental hurry and stop us from enjoying what we are doing. What we feel as enjoyment, is just a thrill or excitement and nothing more.

In fact we, in general, do not know at all what real enjoyment is!

And the thing will again leave its mark on our psychological memory.

The repertoire of our psychological memory will go on getting bigger and bigger!

Our mental burden will go on increasing with every passing experience of either liking or disliking which, in turn, will go on aging us fast too! Old age does not come by the number of years we have passed, but by the number of experiences, which we either like or dislike, and hence do not enjoy them in their totality.

We will go on being more and more greedy and/or fearful.

It all turns into a vicious circle.

Since we do not enjoy - or are stopped from enjoying - doing what we are, we turn a victim to mental hurry; and since we are a victim to mental hurry, it does not let us enjoy whatever we are doing whether we like it or dislike.

And is it not liking and disliking that is the root of all emotion on earth?

And is it not total enjoyment that is the root of all passion in life?

The topic is not over yet. We have to go into the effects that this mental hurry has on our body system. We also have to go into the way to break this vicious circle somehow.

I will be doing these both in my next two (or more) articles on the topic, albeit, with the different titles those of.

About the Author

By qualification, G B Singh is an electronics engineer, passionate to change the quality of life on earth.

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