I come bearing interesting, oddly ironic, and informative news. Today’s topic was brought to you at the last minute, with no prior work, because of the many unnecessary things I decide are more important than this whenever I have time to write this. So today I’m gong to discuss the wonderful nuances of laziness, an ironic subject I had put on my schedule to talk about several weeks ago.
So anyways, onto the topic, laziness is a human trait that is very common in the current era. I say the current era because back when you had to work for your living and you weren’t able to just live off of your parents and inherit the fortune your uncle stashed away, if you were lazy, you died. So obviously we can see that times have changed.... a lot.... and so we now have a problem with “kids these days” being really lazy, kinda like me. So I know we all know what laziness is, so I’m just going to give a brief overview and then go on to some reasons for why you should avoid it, and follow up with some methods to avoid being lazy.
Well, laziness as you all know is a lack of a “drive” to keep going, putting other more interesting or less difficult things to do before the less interesting or more difficult things. For instance, one usually does video games instead of doing their homework, because even if the homework is fun, like doing long strings of easy math, or writing a short story, or programming a short game depending on what class or major you are in. This is because of the proven fact that video games are fun, just look at the game sells, and the fact that there are at least 71,905 computer game sites on the Internet: Google data. But there are many other situations similar to this, we could talk about how we’d like to do [insert simple amusing easy fun here] instead of [insert work task here] all day long, and that would definitely make this post easier because then I wouldn’t have to write a whole lot on it, because I assure you, we all have a long list of stuff we’d rather do then other things. And then there’s the next level of laziness, there’s the people who just don’t want to do stuff, they are “not energetic or vigorous” as Merriam-Webster says. these are the people who call you in the middle of the night to go get you something because they don’t want to get up. Also, these are the people who sit on the couches watching television with a beer helmet on so you don’t have to get up to get another one, or even, *gasp* hold the can in your hand and raise it to your lips, because that’s just too much work. And then I guess if you took it a step further, I imagine people laying on their beds getting fed intravenously, having a catheter attached, and having the television mounted on the ceiling so that you don’t have to turn your head to see it. But I don’t know anybody like that, personally that is.... although my friends can be somewhat lazy, and if you are reading this and are feeling guilty.... I mean you. But we’re just going to look at the more common type of laziness, the first I mentioned, because it’s the most common, and hence probably the most relevant to you.
So now we know what laziness is, let’s get into why we should avoid it. Well, I’m sure some of you have experienced the “oh crap, that huge project is due tomorrow” situation at least once, and maybe that influenced you to not be lazy anymore, because it works like that for about half the current population. As well, I know that I’ve been personally punished for not doing chores or turning extracurricular papers or forms in on time, and that’s not fun. Finally on this subject, answer me this: how does it help? All you’ve succeeded in doing is pushing back something that will be required anyways so you will have less time doing it, will get stressed which is actually harmful physically to you. However, if you do it the right way: because of the extra time you have, you are now probably able to turn in a much better piece of work, which gives you a better grade, eventually getting you a better college, for a better degree, and subsequently a better job, a better house, a better car, more money, and if you’re smart and aren’t lazy: an early retirement consisting only of video games or whatever it is you do instead of what you should. For the alternative, take the antonym of every statement in that ridiculous run on sentence and you will figure out what will happen.
So I’ve hopefully given you a reason to not be lazy, so how does this happen? Well, I now give you the easiest and hardest answer in the world: you work. If you actually work on these things then you won’t be behind and can have a happier life, despite what people tell you about work. I can give a hint though on how to help you through this: time management. Which is basically a fancy way of saying, set up a calendar, and get everything done ahead of time. Just don’t ignore the calendar, because then you just set yourself up for a downward spiral. For example you can look at this very blog and see how with no schedule the blog became barren of posts. But now that I added the schedule, you have lots of posts every week. But as with anything, if we don’t follow the schedule we can fall into a downward spiral as well. So I hope you enjoyed the post, make sure to tell us how we do by clicking the little buttons at the bottom or commenting.
Live long and prosper,
The King of the Blog
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