Discipline

 Is it right to be disciplined, to have a discipline to your daily doing and being? In the laissez-faire scenario today, this d-word is looked down upon. The more chaotic, disorganised you are, you are considered a genius.

Actually, the best in any field are always highly disciplined. In fact, there would be a regimen not only to their imaginative and intellectual being, but even to their daily chores. Being unorganised reveals more an imaginative and intellectual laziness than the physical sloth so looked down upon in every religion, each philosophy.

Then whence this glorification of the total lack of discipline? I suppose, one of the reasons could be the much misunderstood Post Romanticism artist phenomenon. As it is, art and artists, always ignored and overlooked in a society lusting after material success, get evoked only when it suits the mindset. 

When lazy unorganised thinking and behaviour need be justified, most all remember the oft wrongly quoted Wordsworthian definition of the "spontaneous overflow", conveniently forgetting the second half of that axiom that most probably they do not know.

Actually, for the " spontaneous overflow" to happen, subtly and intuitively  years of disciplined thinking would have gone in. A rebellious thinking is not mere laziness. In fact, rebellion would need a questioning of the comfort zone which requires the D word in a big way.

In brief, no excuses to avoid the defined day sculpted out of a chaotic mismanagement! Long live creative discipline!

Pratima@Discipline is the bridge across the ditch of laziness that leads to your dreams. Discipline is not punishment. It is a mode of empowerment.