Ode to the lazy
All through school I hated that there was always work piling up and the longer I put it off, the more impossible it all appeared to be.
One avoided it as far as possible and ended up empty-handed every morning dreading the consequences. Living in constant fear of the punishment that was inevitable, but being unable to just get the work done. Inertia at its worst. Then came the shame, and disappointment.
One avoided it as far as possible and ended up empty-handed every morning dreading the consequences. Living in constant fear of the punishment that was inevitable, but being unable to just get the work done. Inertia at its worst. Then came the shame, and disappointment.
Soon everyone who did their work regularly moved on, and one was left behind.
Too far behind to catch-up.
Every weekend seemed bursting with promise. So many hours of fun and freedom. The whole while at the back of one's mind the nagging knowledge that there was work to do.
If it could just be done, one would actually relax completely and have fun, but that's not how it works.
After every half decent weekend, one ends up having to face the music, with nothing to show for it on Monday mornings.
This philosophy of work avoidance takes its toll.
It also molds leaves its mark. One finds ways to avoid hard work, finds ways to automate or outsource the tedious tasks. One is able to compartmentalize and enjoy life despite its little imperfections, and one is able to handle punishment and disappointment and calamity.
It also molds leaves its mark. One finds ways to avoid hard work, finds ways to automate or outsource the tedious tasks. One is able to compartmentalize and enjoy life despite its little imperfections, and one is able to handle punishment and disappointment and calamity.
Laziness and work avoidance, coupled with an inventive mind could create more efficient methods to get things done.
In the grown-up world, the work is never done, and things are never actually perfect. When you, from a lifetime of practice, learn to compartmentalize and set your worries aside and focus on the beauty of the "now" you might have actually achieved a really rewarding life. When you have worries and disappointments, and you often do, the shirker has learned to deal with those emotions.
We canonize those remarkable few who PERSEVERE, rise above all odds and succeed where mere mortals all failed, but at the end of it, all those icons have memories of their glory and failure, and a life of struggle and anger.
The one who rolls with the blows and goes along might have smaller victories, but looks back at a life of appreciating the beauty of it all.
Shirking work and finding ways to enjoy the moment, while others toil.
That's the ticket.
2015-8-3
That's the ticket.
2015-8-3
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