Dear World
Are we all aware what exactly is Messing About?
How many of us know when we are Messing About?
What is the dictionary telling us about Messing About?
Merriam–Webster
Mess About
to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious
to waste time
to have sex with someone who is not one’s husband, wife or regular partner (1)
Cambridge Dictionary
Mess About
to waste time, often by doing things that are not important
to spend time playing and doing things with no particular purpose (2)
Collins Dictionary
Mess About
to occupy oneself trivially; potter
to interfere or meddle with (3)
Now we know what the Dictionary is saying –
Let’s join the dots and apply some Common Sense
We are wasting time
We are doing things that are not use–full
We are doing things that are not Serious
We are doing things that are not important
We are spending time playing
We are doing things with No Purpose
We are occupying ourselves trivially
We are interfering or meddling with …
We call ourselves the most Intelligent species on earth and it is time to Question that Intelligence.
Does a lion get busy wasting time when he has to take care of his pride and the space they occupy together?
Does an eagle go off track and interfere or meddle with other species in the animal kingdom?
Does an elephant occupy itself with trivial nonsense that has no purpose?
Does a cheetah spend time playing to slow his speed down when he needs to hunt?
These are not stupid Questions.
These Questions actually QUESTION our so–called Intelligence.
Have we stopped to consider what happens to our Biology, Physiology and Psychology when we are Messing About?
What is the state of our Anxiety levels during our Messing About sessions, which are happening every day?
How are others around us affected with our Consistent Messing About behaviours?
Why are we seeking the movements of Messing About when we have responsibilities that are important?
Let’s take a look at an important aspect of life and see if we can relate to anything that is being presented here.
WORK
What is Messing About for us in our work life?
How many of us are Messing About at work?
Do we bother to take work seriously all the time?
Do we think Messing About is just a bit of fun?
Do we watch others Messing About so we say it is ok?
Do we like wasting time, which is just Messing About?
Do we have to work late because we spend working hours Messing About?
Do we feel entitled with Messing About at work as our pay is lower than we expected?
Do we Demand the promotion and the bigger salary but we want the boss to Ignore the daily Messing About ‘time out’ we have?
Do we feel entitled to rob our employers of a bit of time and so we endorse and validate it’s ok to be Messing About?
Do we find that we have always been Messing About at work and that’s just how we operate and what’s the big deal?
Do we enjoin with others and enable them to also continue with the Messing About?
Do we realise that our lack of Focus is associated with our Messing About?
Do we value our skills and know that is what we are being paid for and that there is zero payment for Messing About?
Have we woken up to the fact that having PURPOSE at work will never lead to Messing About?
Have we bothered to check how much time we actually spend Messing About at work?
Have we become the employee known for Messing About and we have no issue with that?
Have we found ways to continue Messing About and Getting Away with It because we have been on the job a long time?
Have our supervisors and managers backed off because we attack them if they even dare to Question us about Messing About?
Have we considered that doing Porn in our work time is proper Messing About?
Have we woken up to the fact that booking Holidays using the work computer is Messing About?
Has the ‘Working From Home’ upped our Messing About as employers have no idea of our real productivity levels now?
Has Messing About at work become the New Normal so we join the bandwagon even though we know it has Serious consequences?
Has Messing About in our work life never been a problem as we always seem to Get Away With It?
Next –
What if our Messing About movements start with small stuff but continue and escalate to the point where we lose our ability to stop and move on and out of this wayward way of living?
What if Serious consequences are ahead of us because of our Messing About way of life?
What if DEBT suddenly is growing fast because of our Messing About and not paying attention to the detail in our money life?
What if the sequence of events that come with Messing About means the end of a Relationship or marriage breakdown?
What if Messing About got us jobless and unable to find another job again?
What if Messing About has led us to the mortgage company taking back our home?
What if Messing About has robbed our children of the childhood they deserved?
What if Messing About has brought us nothing but Anxiety and misery and yet we don’t Question WHY we do it?
Bringing RESPONSIBILITY into all our choices is going to have consequences and Messing About also has consequences.
If we need a Gentle reminder, take a quick look at the state of our world in stats last year.
Read our 2024 – WORLD NEWS which is a BIG Reality Check that things are not great at all on this planet.
How many of us are contributing to the ill State of our World with our ‘Messing About’ every single day?
What if we individually made the movements to sharpen up and simply GET ON WITH IT and that means read that blog, make the necessary adjustments, stop making out life is Stressful and hard when it is not?
This website offers all readers equally the opportunity to make sensible Changes to the lifestyle we may be living that is not supporting our True Health and Well-Being.
Let’s END the Messing About and take a dose of Serious every morning so that others can be inspired by the way we live.
References
(1) (n.d). Merriam-Webster. Retrieved July 19, 2025 from
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mess%20about
(2) (n.d). Cambridge Dictionary. Retrieved July 19, 2025 from
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/mess-about-around
(3) (n.d). Collins Dictionary. Retrieved July 19, 2025 from
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mess-about