Suhirman

The Painter

The Painter made a decition to finish two paintings in a week. The themes and details of those paintings had been in his mind already. But he kept postponing his painting one day his relaxed conition, his mind asked himself why laziness sometimes came and strangled his hands and legs when he was about to start painting. Why he chosed doing reading or laying in bed, day dreaming.

He understood that there was happiness within and beyond the painting process. He knows that the happiness got enough power to attract him to start painting. He understood that. But why for almost a week laziness had kept him from starting painting.

Then he was aware that laziness was not so bad as many people thought. People tend to appreciate deligence and despise laziness. But The Painter did not thing so. It is true that without deligence, laziness became the master of mind. And if that happens the evolution of human beings would ceas and they would vanish. But laziness is as important as deligence. If there had been no laziness, people would have tend to work too hard, so that they would have ruined their own bodies and minds.

The Painter accepted that laziness is natural, since every thing in this universe tend to be stand still, unless some force makes them move.

What he did was just prepare a canvas while accepting that laziness as natural.  But at that moment he needed to break it before it became too much. By one step, preparing a canvas, his laziness did break up, and the road to painting activities was opened. That one step was so important that after that one step his painting activitiy was flowing naturally, and his heart started to taste the sweetness of happiness.

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