Sometimes procrastination can be seen as an obstacle, a psychological trap. But what if it isn’t?
What if, behind the distraction and the apparent “doing nothing”, lies an invitation to creative freedom?
On a day when I couldn’t focus and my duties seemed far away, I put my deadlines on hold and followed a light, almost absurd impulse, with no defined purpose: I transformed a photograph of a colleague into an improvised animation, inspired by a theater poster she had mentioned. What began as an escape became a game. And the game became creation.
Without the pressure to deliver, without the need to please, I experimented for the sake of experimenting. I exchanged the rigidity of the task for the lightness of improvisation. I created because I wanted to. Because I felt like it. Because something in me wanted to see how far that idea – apparently useless – could go.
It wasn’t for anything. And yet it was for everything: to explore, to laugh, to create aimlessly.
There is something profoundly fertile in that gap between what we should do and what we feel like exploring. When we free ourselves – even for a moment – from the obligation to be productive, we give way to the unexpected. Sometimes it’s in that limbo between work and leisure that we find the most creative ideas. Sometimes what comes out of procrastination is not loss, but discovery.
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