On Laziness

My last post on this blog - the ALMOST daily BB newspaper - was on 24th March. Believe it or not, I actually made the intentional decision not to post on here for ages! Yes yes. This was in order to highlight a very special topic. One that is very close to my heart… and probably my brain - laziness.

You don’t think this delay in posting was on purpose? Well… that’s just like… your opinion dude. 

Laziness… yes it sounds negative of course. Somehow though it only sounds a little bad. Not serious enough to be a menacing fault. Just look at it, look at that word. Laz-i-ness. It’s a bad trait sure but it could be worse, right?

I got news for you buddy. It is worse. It ain’t just a little bad, it’s crippling. I am speaking of course as one who suffers greatly from this (just look at the date of my previous post (ok ok, I lied when I said the break was intentional - heck! That’s why I italicised it!)). 

Laziness. Being lazy. One who lazes. Laziness can creep up on a person. It comes in waves. These waves can last a long long time. Sometimes you aren’t even aware you’re in the lazy wave and then there you are - swept up, treading water… lazily. At the mercy of laziness. You don’t want to be in that position. Trust me.

Realising you are in one of these “waves” is the first step. This can be achieved a number of ways. Perhaps the most effective is someone close to you pointing out your laziness. Perhaps they asked you for a favour. A favour you very much intended on carrying out. Yet nothing seemed to happen. You couldn’t get into gear. Something was wrong. What is it? Ya lazy.

Another way to become aware of your own laziness would be to look at yourself and take notice. Spot the problem and realise it needs action, not lazy inaction. One critical issue with this is the length of time it may take a lazy individual to take that critical view of themselves. It is much more efficient for an outsider to speed up this process. Ideally an outsider whose opinion the lazy one respects & who wouldn’t cause them to feel embittered by being called out.

Routine is the ultimate destroyer of laziness. It decimates laziness like nothing else (why don’t people use decimate more. I never hear it. I feel like I used to hear it more. What happened? I like it. It was originally a term for a method of punishment the Romans would use on a legion. Killing every tenth soldier. And yes, I do think about the Roman Empire a lot. Maybe I’ll try and think about the Roman Republic instead. Will that make you happy?!).

If this article (if you can call it that) seems rambling and unedited, a real punishment to read. Then that is because I am breaking my chronic laziness, at least for now, by doing something. No matter the readability or general quality of the thing. I am doing something. That’s what you should do if you find yourself being lazy. Do something. Hopefully I can do these things consistently. Consistency is key because routine wards off the evil of lazing.

Then again, what do I know? I haven’t written on here since March. It’s December!

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Peace.

Did you spot the ampersand? How did it make you feel? 

(I actually cut so much nonsense from this - really!)