How lazy can people be? When is being lazy within limits, and when does it become a disease? How can we help a person that’s gone too far with his or her laziness and should we even try to help them if they themselves don’t want any help (because they’re too lazy)?
Do you consider yourself to be lazy? Sometimes and sometimes not, it depends on the circumstances? Yeah, me too. But, what if a person is too lazy to go anywhere if they don’t have a car? They won’t walk 500 meters to their friend’s place, or 1500 meters to a café? When you talk to someone like that, and hear that they don’t want to go out for coffee to a place 5 minutes away from where they live because they don’t have a car, you fell like smacking them in the head because you just can’t believe what you’re hearing. I can’t begin to comprehend the future of such a person, although I’m very curious about it…. If I could see into their future somehow, I’m afraid I’d see something like this… Office job, 8 to 4, sitting in front of a computer screen with weak nerves that they compensate for by smoking two and half packs of cigarettes a day; their physical maximum is pressing the mouse button and typing away. Once work is done, they get into their car, and their only walk of the day, if we exclude getting coffee out of a vending machine and two trips to the bathroom at work, is the one from their house to the car, from the car to the office, from the office to the car and from the car to the house. Once home, they resume their work on the computer, and later they lounge in front of the TV complaining to their spouse of back pain and bad blood circulation. This condition would improve if they did some physical activity for an hour every day, something that would get their blood flowing and make them sweat a bit, but why bother when they can get their spouse to give them a massage? Still, this is just one extreme out of many possible scenarios… it might not be this way at all… Back to laziness… There are some things I’d like to point out, that are typical for women (or the women I deal with on a daily basis). There is a song by a Croatian band where they say “…we don’t understand… why you never close the tooth-paste…” Is it that tiny effort your finger has to make in order to press on the cap that makes you give up on the task altogether? But it’s not only tooth-paste, it’s all those cosmetic wonders (scattered all over the bathroom), various creams, shower gels, shampoos and all other items with caps. And now I wonder, is it so bloody difficult to push down the f****** caps?! Many of you might wonder, what is the big deal? Well, aside from the hardened tooth-paste and shampoos spilling all over if dropped, there’s no problem, but is it really so hard to do? The caps are there for a reason… but enough about the caps… When I try to decide whether someone is lazy or not, it’s those little things that I take into consideration. Of course, if someone just sits there and won’t move an inch (won’t even order a pizza using a telephone they’re holding in their hand), it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to draw some conclusions. I could list a thousand details that can expose a lazy person, but I might make some enemies in the process, so I’ll skip that. I admit, I am sometimes lazy myself, but my laziness is within limits, and I intend to keep it that way. |
