The word Drudgery means: hard, menial or dull work.
Am I right in assuming that young people today are not at all interested in drudgery (most of them haven't even heard the word) but only interested in going full speed ahead? Who wants to do menial labor (getting your hands dirty) basically, jobs that suck, while you could be involved in something so much more exciting and interesting?
Who wants to be bored, who wants uninteresting, who wants menial and dull when excitement lies just ahead?
Life is not all about speed and excitement. Life is peppered with bouts of drudgery, you know those times you can't escape. The times you have to clean out the cat litter box and it's one scoopful after the other until the dirty job is done.
But, isn't it interesting that during the time you're cleaning out the litter box, all by yourself with nobody bothering you, you're finally able to fully concentrate on some things that have been bugging you?
You find yourself thinking about what you said to so and so yesterday and you just made up your mind that an apology is in order. Or, that math equation you couldn't figure out last week but now, magically, the answer just appeared.
Say you've got pages and pages of a homework assignment that is due by the end of the week. You don't know how you're going to do it but you're determined to stay up late every night forcing yourself to do drudge work and gut it out, fighting back sleep in order to finish the assignment.
The following Friday, the teacher singles you out to compliment you on your efforts and rewards you with an A for your work.
Answers to life problems won't come to you when you're constantly on full speed ahead and on the move always looking for new excitement.
Yet this is exactly what social media embraces, what television preaches and Hollywood constantly portrays in their films. Excitement is where it's at!
No, it's not. If you want to get anywhere in life, Drudgery is where it's at!
The benefits of rote work (rote meaning routine, fixed, habitual, mechanical) and how it helps you clear your conscious, allowing your unconscious to flow freely in order to solve problems, is a secret tool of the masters. It's just this success tool isn't being taught in schools or in colleges and I daresay, even in many homes.
So the next time you apply for a job and find out it may not be all that you wanted, that most of it is going to be dull, drab work (drudgery) in which nothing exciting is going to happen, don't pass it up because you may be giving up something extraordinary that will manifest in your life.
You will then be pleasantly surprised at what drudgery can teach and do for you.
It's wisdom earned the hard way--It's called work!
It's only when you learn this skill and its magical mechanics, that you will find yourself on a new and more rewarding and positive path in life.
Drudgery isn't taught in schools. It's a learned experience meant only for a successful few who know how valuable it is.
It's a fantastic tool and a great way of standing up to life's problems.
Give it a try!
Have a great week!
~ Blessings,
~ Nightshade
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