The Lazy Being

  Introduction:

The human body needs energy to perform any activity, be it eating, digestion and thinking. Roughly, mental performance needs as much energy as the hard physical work. How well these expended energies are budgeted labels the individual as – active or passive, in a broader sense. The deficit account leaves an individual weak but not a lazy person.

Passivism starts with disinterest or fear of failing to do well. Even to create the self confidence and interest, mental energy and some amount of physical energy needs to be sacrificed. This is the point at which the passivism is overwhelmed by the imposed burdens and hangs up. Welcome laziness!

The thought that certain tasks need not be performed, lack of drive to compete with others and a host of other compelling reasons whip around  in the mind of a lazy person , solely for the purpose of building up an alibi for furthering inaction.

Some times it takes the philosophical route, placing the onus on karma & retribution, if they buttress its fabricated alibi. It eases the pain in the conscience for being inactive. The reasons for   conserving energy come next.

The Lazy Being is in full agreement with the principle that energy is needed to run the thinking process. This agreement is purely on selfish grounds – to further augment the earlier stated alibi and make it undefeatable. An easily reachable goal is now set – the statehood for inactivity.

This state further scares the Lazy Being like a wish-list of a nation deciding to modernize its armed forces. Not done with it, the lazy Being has to spend time and mental energy to come up with coherent arguments to convince self and others at large.

Has to think about what has to be done and how much of it could be off-loaded or postponed; has to recollect all those things that have been off-loaded or postponed; take a decision whether to maintain status quo or do a risk-assessment that are likely to arise - in short and long terms.

Not stopping there, further explanations are to be generated, based on the profit-loss analysis in support of continuing in the same state of Laziness.

By now, LB has mastered the philosophical platform to quell any alluded arguments raised in the family or among friends (still undecided on having lazy for active friends!).

Quote the example of an active ant , his immediate reply will be – if it is its karma, let it be so!

To sweeten the things a little, highlight the busy life of a honey bee then the well rehearsed answer will be – for all its activism it gets cheated and burnt, where is the fun?

Discuss the tenacity of a self-reliant spider, the spirited answer will be – spinning, sitting at web, waiting to catch insects, is this a life style worth the efforts?

If cornered by the argument, that these insects do not have the faculty of analysis and yet go about their activities instinctively, the long winded reply will be – insects live by instincts and I live by intelligence.

Scurrying like an ant, buzzing like a bee or spinning like a spider is neither my style nor my choice of life. Will you get off my back; I have no more energy left to do any other thing right now!