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It Really is Laziness

I spent about eight minutes of my life reading a post that promised me that I’m not lazy.  It claimed to be the last motivational blog post I’ll ever need.  I am pretty certain that I AM lazy, but I was willing to suspend disbelief and let someone tell me that I’m not lazy.  I mean, I’m not thrilled with the fact that I’m lazy, so if there’s another reason for why I do what I do, I’m all ears.

In the first part he spends paragraphs… many paragraphs… reiterating this idea: “There’s a reason why there’s literally trillions of words out there on the Internet designed to help you live your very best life possible and yet very few of us are.”

I stayed with him because I literally read an article about how sugar causes inflammation and leads to all these crazy health issues WHILE I ATE A KIT KAT.  I am not a stupid person.  I have read countless books about processed food.  I knew better before I started that sugar article.  But reader, I still ate it.  (That was my best Jane Austen, and it really wasn’t very good.)

So I got through the reiterations of that idea to finally get to his thesis: That we all just need to do it.  Like the Nike slogan.  Whatever “it” is, do that.

And I was pissed.  Because not only was it not helpful, but neither was the rest of the idea that my inaction is due to fear.  No.  Actually, my inaction is due to laziness.  It is easier to grab the Kit Kat than to convince myself that I don’t want the Kit Kat.  (I want the Kit Kat.  I always want the Kit Kat.)  It is easier to surf the web and read blogs than it is to come up with my own words.  It is easier to play match-3 games than it is to crunch numbers.  It is easier to sleep than to do yoga.

Really.  It’s not fear.  It’s laziness.

I’m lazy.  And I shouldn’t keep Kit Kats in the house, knowing that fact.

8 comments

1 suzannacatherine { 03.20.18 at 8:49 am }

I get it. I’m lazy too. So many things I’d rather do than the “it” I should be doing. My distractions are playing 1010 and my candy of choice is a Mounds bar. It’s nice to know I’m not alone.

2 Lori Lavender Luz { 03.20.18 at 9:13 am }

I’d be mad, too, after being lured in to a reframing only to spend all that time coming out where I started.

Good post, Ms Austen.

P.S. I realize when reading your “it’s easier” sentences just how lazy I am, too. Off to read blog posts. (But also to do yoga.)

3 a { 03.20.18 at 9:33 am }

You could probably talk yourself into researching how sugar can’t possibly the cause of all ills, since it is an essential compound that fuels our bodies. Nobody is lazy when it comes to justifying behavior!

4 Sharon { 03.20.18 at 9:56 am }

I’m inherently lazy, too. Maybe we should form a club.

P.S. I am on the verge of wanting to throat punch the next person who writes an article telling me to “work smarter instead of harder.” I have a job where my work is billed to clients based on time spent, broken into tenth of an hour increments, so this advice is singularly unhelpful to me.

5 torthuil { 03.20.18 at 3:25 pm }

So funny. I am lazy too and there are things I will never achieve because I enjoy that lazy feeling (within reason).

6 katherinea12 { 03.20.18 at 9:46 pm }

Totally nodding along with this post, though! Me too. And my candy kryptonite is definitely either peanut butter M&Ms or some form of Reeses’ cups.

When I read the “Reader” phrasing, my brain went straight to Charlotte Bronte referencing “Reader, I married him” :). Austen or Bronte, I like it!

7 Natasha { 03.21.18 at 8:13 am }

According to my father, laziness is what moves the progress.
People were too lazy to walk… they domesticated horses and later, invented cars.
People were too lazy to wash their laundry by hand. So, they invented the washing machine.

I am too lazy to fold laundry – so I taught my kids to do it. I have a feeling they’ll end up inventing some sort of ingenious machine to fold laundry for them.

Hurrah for lazy!!!

8 loribeth { 03.28.18 at 6:52 pm }

You made me laugh with this post, Mel. My mother is addicted to KitKats & keeps a supply in the house & in her purse at all times. It’s an easy buy for her Christmas stocking. She makes sure she has a good supply when she travels in the States, though — she is a proud American, but in this matter, she will concede Canadian superiority, lol — she says the Canadian version is much better. 😉

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