Laziness is my favorite feeling. Laziness is the catalyst of a successful life.
Since the young days, we all were thought that laziness is equal to evil. I believed in this idea for quite some time, until I realized that it was a BS idea. For me, laziness is the best feeling ever when I can control it rather than surrendering to it.
Does this dog look unhappy to you?
Of course, I am totally against someone being lazy all the time and just wasting his life doing nothing. It sucks when people (or dogs for that matter) do that. However, laziness itself is not the problem on those occasions.
If you learn how to control laziness, you'll know how to control anything.
Laziness is one of the strongest feelings out there. It has this tendency to grab you right by your balls and not let it go. I must say, it fascinates me. And the best part about it is that you can so often feel how laziness is slowly approaching and there is no place to run. Those moments are desperate enough to make you rethink everything you knew about yourself.
We, humans, are pretty fragile and weak compared to the force of emotions and feelings. I don't think we can ever fully control them and that is what keeps me working hard. Yup, paradoxically, laziness also keeps me working hard.
Whenever I feel that I am lazy, I let myself enjoy that moment for a little, then take myself back together and keep pushing even harder.
There is no way to kill laziness. However, we can learn to live with it in peace, and that is when it leaves... at least for a while.
Also, being lazy and having to do stuff is a very good exercise of self-improvement. For instance, I went to sleep late last night, it is a Saturday morning today, and it takes all the willpower in the world for me to write this post. However, I know that I didn't write anything yesterday and if I don't do it today, laziness might take over me forever. Also, I would feel like shit for skipping my daily routine twice in a row...
After all, I can only come up with a solid excuse to fool myself for one time. I am a smart man, and I would never buy the same lie for the second time (sometimes I wish I were stupid). And in those moments, when I am working with my lazy mode on, I realize how great of a man I grew up to be.
You cannot appreciate things that come easily to you. It is stupid, I know, but it also makes people work hard for their goals.
And so, I have this funny relationship with laziness. I hate it, but I also know that it only means good to me. Laziness takes me to the place in which I can either fail miserably or start learning new things and appreciating life. And you know what? If I am weak enough to fall into the trap of laziness, so be it... We get what we deserve, and it means that people who let laziness control them are the ones who don't want to be otherwise. However, those people can never blame laziness for their faults, because they always have a chance to kick laziness in the face and start acting.
Laziness is my favorite feeling, which catalyzes every other emotion that I ever have.
Thanks for this article, your point about laziness, is interesting, and this kind of words, can help others, to live a better life, as you are trying to do too. I will put on my frequent reading place, to try to gain power in my life, as you are doing with your. Again thank you !
Thanks @cesmak, I am happy you liked my post.
Laziness is only bad if you believe in the labor theory of value.
Nearly every successful invention can be framed as a way to facilitate productive laziness.
If you are a developer, laziness is a virtue.
http://threevirtues.com
True that, however, we still need to know how to control laziness rather than work for it.
I always love reading your point of view, you often pick the most interesting topics that no one thinks about. Or at least no one thinks about it quite like you do. Now that I am thinking about it like you, I have to agree with you. Sometimes I think obsession and laziness are equal and opposite counterparts, both are good if you can control them, but very bad if they control you.
Thanks @dreemit! I am so glad that you like my thoughts and how I construct them. Also, I totally agree with you that obsession and laziness are good as long as we have the control. Same applies to every single thing, tho.
Allow me to draw your attention to Karl Marx' son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, who wrote an ode to laziness in 1883: "The Right to be Lazy", from a philosophical/economical/political/eschatological perspective (I wrote a small introduction here).
BTW, in my language, the inertia of mass is called "laziness". In a sense, Classical Mechanics explains how and why doing no more Work than necessary is entirely in tune with the way of the universe.
Also, as you say: if you're not lazy every now and then, you'll never feel the joy and fulfillment that results from kicking yourself in the ass and getting shit done.