Haste = Waste

Hi folks,

I used to post this label in a notepad in my drawer while I was in college:

Haste = Waste

Yup, how many of you agree with this statement?

Need more examples/ scenario to understand this statement?

Allrite, let's use my case studies as investigation.

In my case, waste here can be in terms of money, time or relationship (go sour). In general, it means "not worth it"!

Case 1:

Technology advancement supposed to help us to speed up our work and most of a time at a cost.

Think washing machine, computers, thermal pot, vacuum cleaner, hair-dryer and the list goes on.

But when we are in such a hasty mode, we ended up wasting more time and money. Especially for people like me who is often on multi-tasking mode.

There were times whereby I on the fire mode on my gas to the maximum while cooking soup with my thermal pot as it only needed to heat up the special element at the bottom of the pot for 20-30 minutes.

Blast…I went on to do other stuff or entertain my kids and phew..forgot to switch off :P

There goes my soup and not to mention having a black charcoal pot to clean!

Wastage = time (in washing and cooking), money (soup ingredients wasted, gas used for nothing) and relationship (why? How many of you won't get any reprimand from your hubby when such thing happened? In particularly it involve safety. And how many of you won't go sulking 'cos the fact that you are just trying to cook a nice meal and already feel very sorry over the incident and yet got scolded in return..sniff sniff…haha..that was how I felt then!)

Lessons learnt. Never leave my cooking left unattended and left it in a haste to do other stuff, NO MATTER WHAT ABSOLUTE VALID REASON! Switch the gas off before I go and do other stuff even before cooking is done. Better be SAFE than SORRY!

 

Case 2:

In our haste to submit assignment or thesis before the due date, how many of us left out the critical proof-read step and came back with a poor marks or remarks/feedback on our "completed" work?  Not to mention the "accuracy" of the facts and figures we reported.

If this happened to a medical report, it could be real disaster! We might misinterpret or written wrong diagnosis report on a patient!

Case 3:

In our daily haste in chasing our kids to "Hurry up" as well, we might forget to take time to listen and have fun with our kids.

How many of us are stressed and also put the stress on our young children, whom by the way, being a bit "dilly-dally" is part of their nature. I find it so stressful for myself and the kids when we need to do things in haste. Mood spoilt, and left with cranky and crying kids.

So, try to rearrange our schedule and leave ample time to allow some "slow-moving" act of our kids or even a time to chat, hug or say goodbye and have a good start for the day!

I often find my blood pressure shoot up, my muscle get so tensed up when I am late for work and need to step on the accelerator and start honking at slow-moving car. Wonder how many of my body cells were damaged during the entire "stressful" moment.

I find it easier to just wake up 5-10 mins. earlier than to get stressful over it.

 

So I like to end my sharing here with a poem I love since my teens:

(It is said that this poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.)

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask "How are you?"

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say "Hi"?

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

Thanks for reading till the end of my lengthy post :D

 

Hope it brightens up your day and make us relook at our habitual auto-pilot mode in our daily life!

 

Cheers!