Good morning from my time zone (it's morning here in my country) hope you had a wonderful night and I wish you a productive day ahead.
Have been reading articles about "Laziness" a prompt hosted by @JonicaBradley and I have been able to gather enough details to fund my article on laziness too, I think I am ready now to write my own opinion on laziness.
We all know the definition of laziness and how it affects our jobs or perhaps daily activities negatively in one way or the other, though there are still advantages in being lazy, I can't think of any though, lol, lazy is not a befitting name that anyone likes to answer, I remember years back when I find it out to do house chores, my siblings always call me the lazy one, because what will take them 20 mins to do, I will just be looking at it for over an hour before doing it, as time flies I began to prove to them that I'm no longer that lazy boy that they use to know, I started running errands in the hard, making sure that they all see that I'm sweating.
Was it worth it? Yeah, I guess, but I later found out that, I am just giving myself unnecessary stress, What do I mean by unnecessary stress? Unnecessary stress is when you start doing things the hard way, just to prove to someone that you are strong, I know you might think that there's no easy or simple way to get some things done. True, not every work has an easy way to get it done, because someone has not discovered it yet, maybe you can be the one to discover it, if you continue with your lazy habit, lol. Just joking.
Unnecessary stress
I remember years back when I was running errands, I usually trek to the place for an hour or more, under the heat of the sun instead of me taking a bus, I thought that I'm being strong and I should do things the old ways when there was no bus then, I never knew that I was stressing myself unnecessarily and it was affecting my health.
Washing your clothes with a washing machine or taking it to the dry cleaners is not laziness, remember that if everyone decided to wash their clothes themselves, the dry cleaners won't have money to feed for themselves, I believe that if you have the money to pay for the comfort that you desired, I don't see reasons why you shouldn't do it, bring a maid to the house is not laziness, it's just job employment for another person, either ways you are still the one working for the money.
There's no price paid for over-stressing yourself, And you don't have to prove yourself to anybody that you are strong, remember that if hard work is truly the key to success, then the bricklayers would have been the riches set of people in the community, I'm the kind of person who prefers brain work to heavy lifting jobs because my brain can be strong enough to handle things and make it work, but my body is not made for the heavy job, I could faint there if I carry a lot of heavy kinds of stuff daily, smart people made things easy for us so we won't have to stress ourselves over it again, I remember years back when gas wasn't so common in my environment, we were using firewoods to cook and the smoke was affecting our eyes, we always see those people that use gas as lazy rich people, but we never knew that they were being careful about their health that's why they prefer using gas rather than firewoods.
You don't have to do things like everyone else to prove that you are not a lazy being, if you find a way to do it simply, do it, I know that people might criticize you for some while, but sooner they will realize that most things don't worth stressing over.
Thanks for reading and don't forget to read my previous articles.
21/10/2021
I like how you see things from a better perspective. While others think using washing machine is laziness, you see it the other way which is good. Salute!