Complacency

‘I have done enough’ ‘I have tried’ ‘Nothing can be better than this’

How often do we find ourselves muting or expressing these statements? Very often, I can bet.

It’s called complacency. Thefreedictionary.com describes it as ‘a feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy.’

It’s stopping right in the middle of a highway and declining to move further; a state of doing nothing when something needs to be done.

Complacency places a false sense of accomplishment on one’s life and builds an unreal aura of euphoria around one’s thinking. It’s a negative vice that is bred by comparison, fear of taking risk, negativity and laziness.

While looking up to people as models and mentors might not be bad, it may however lead to a point where one places a limit on one’s potentials. Men and women who compare themselves with others put a full stop at the beginning of their sentence rather at the end. They stop being creative and productive and start developing a sense of unhealthy competition. They eventually lose sight of their dream and capabilities.

Risk is part of everything. Taking calculated risk enhances the chances of success. Folks who always like to play it safe and venture into nothing end up wearing the garb of complacency. They call it being careful but on the long-run, it fuels their sense of self-satisfaction and keeps them at the same spot while others are way ahead.

In my few years of living, I have also come to see how negativity can clamp one down to a world of self-satisfaction and nothingness. When one’s worldview is that of hatred, bitterness, anger and revenge, there is practically nothing to look forward to in life. To a negative person, good looks bad and dreams appear as nightmares. A negative person continuously saps his/her own energy and finds a safe haven in his/her own unpopular and anti-progress thoughts and feelings.

Laziness is the age-old father of complacency. Doing nothing and being nothing. Abhorring responsibilities and placing a demand on others for one’s upkeep; constantly churning out excuses for inactivity and failure. Nothing can be more damaging in life than a combination of laziness and complacency.

Complacency is killing our world. Great minds are giving up and brilliant voices are going into silence. We are consoling ourselves with the past and eating up our present without any real investment in our future. We are consumed with praising ourselves instead of praying for ourselves.

There is a clarion call for us to be sensible with our time and life. Not just wasting away with everything that comes our way. Finding a vision and pursuing it. Staying focused rather than jumping at every task, job, lifestyle etc that could age our mind and life early.

It’s time to unlock our potentials. Let’s get to work: to device new concepts, write new books, solve new problems, help new people and conquer new enemies. Let’s challenge ourselves to new heights and new depths and stamp complacency out of our world.,