I can't quite put my finger on what this post brings up for me but it's something along the lines of . . .

. . . there seems to be an implicit assumption and general consensus about what work is? As though it were a definable object. But it doesn't actually exist, does it? A bit like money.

There are tasks, sure, and places where people congregate but work itself is really a description of other things rather than a thing in itself. That seems a really important distinction to me but, as I said, I'm not I can't quite put my finger on exactly why.

What comes to mind in your description is, for example, someone sitting at a desk, They have a number of tasks they feel they have to do that they don't really want to do (because they have all sorts of thoughts about what doing them means, i.e. they're boring, too hard, not fair etc.) so they choose to do other stuff to avoid them. Or do "nothing".

The problem, it seems to me, is that we believe we have to do them. We don't. There will be consequences if we don't but, rather than accept responsibility for making a choice to do these tasks, rather than face the consequences of not doing them, we prefer to moan, procrastinate and generally act as if we have no choice.

This situation seems to be one of the generally agreed ones that most would associate with the word work.

Currently, I have a number of tasks that, should I wish to do so, I could call work. They certainly feel like work and most people would probably agree they are work. But they aren't. They are just actions I will or will not choose to take.

I'm pretty sure I will take them because I don't want to face the consequences I foresee from not doing them. My accounts and tax return are an obvious example.

Yet, here I sit, writing on Steemit most clearly not doing my accounts.

Does that make me a slacker? Nope. It could be that writing on Steemit is a better use of my time right night.

Does it mean they won't get done? Nope. I'm pretty sure that I will get around to them and before the deadline. So any energy spent on trying to make myself do them right now is wasted energy, in my opinion. Better to remember that every year I feel this way and, yet, every year I get them done.

So . . . I wonder . . . if we just trusted the process of life, would we get more done, at the perfect time? We would certainly waste a lot less energy.

And I think I'll end this comment by echoing @denmarkguy . . . "I know this comment was uncommonly "rambly," but . . .