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Have you ever been snuggled up on the couch, peacefully watching TV and enjoying your favourite show, then all of a sudden it ends on a cliffhanger and a show you hate takes its place? You look around, scouting for the remote, only to find it out of arm’s reach. Do you stand to pick up the remote, or do you invent some crazy new method like using your feet as if they were chopsticks to bring the remote into your arms without moving an inch? Well if you were the latter, congratulations, you're a lazy person. Now, there’s always some time in the day where you think to yourself “I should stop being lazy.” What if I told you being lazy actually isn’t a bad thing, and that you should embrace it, love it, and just accept it. Due to the gift of us humans being lazy, we have invented more efficient ways to do our daily activities. Not only that, lazy people feel less stress because they go to sleep at a more suitable time, rather than frying their brains trying to finish 100 tasks at once. I can also prove to y’all why even though you’re lazy, you can still get things done.
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99% of society considers laziness to be a bad thing, but if you think about it, many of our daily activities are based on inventions to satisfy our laziness. Transport because of our laziness to walk, calculators because of our laziness to do maths, and even dishwashers and laundry machines because of our laziness to wash our own clothes and dishes. Benjamin Franklin, one of the founders of the united states, and a very accomplished inventor once said: “I am the laziest man in the world, I invented all those things to save myself from toil.” For example, Franklin had bad eyesight, which meant he needed different glasses for seeing things up close and from afar. Due to his laziness to continuously switching glasses, he cut his glasses lens in half, making the top half for viewing from a distance and the bottom half for viewing something up close. This is how the bifocals were invented. See because of Franklin’s laziness, the bifocals were invented. He made many new inventions that made his work easier, because he wanted to do less work. We can all learn from Franklin, and how he made things easier because he was lazy. To develop this idea, this is an example: If you get assigned a task and no matter how long you took and the end result would be the same. Would you rather spend 5 hours to finish it, or 5 minutes? If there is a more efficient way of solving something, chances are a lazy person would try to figure it out. Although going an extra mile once in a while isn’t bad, sometimes, it would become a wasted effort. And so being lazy isn’t bad if you use it to your advantage.
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Being lazy may also help with reducing stress levels, getting sufficient sleep as well as saving money. Lazy people are less willing to go out to a restaurant for food, unless you have a great passion for food of course. But instead, they might be satisfied with a homemade lunch or leftovers etc. Eating out costs money, so being too lazy to go outside, would save you money. Lazy people love sleep. It’s rare to see someone lazy work through the hours of the dark, instead, they sleep. In a Harvard study, it says that people sleep less than 6 hours and work too hard during the night, actually work less efficiently than people who are well rested and full on sleep. To further develop my philosophy, another Harvard study has estimated that sleep-deprived workers cost American companies around 63.2 billion dollars every year. To put everything I have said simply, it means that working hard through the night and not getting sleep actually reduces productivity, instead of helping it. Therefore being lazy, and going to sleep at a more suitable time is actually better than working through the darkness of the night.
What is laziness? The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines it as “disinclined to activity or exertion.” Exertion means expending physical or mental energy on a task. Imagine a hobby or activity you love doing. Does that make you feel like you are exerting yourself? Of course not. For example, as a lazy person myself, although I enjoy playing badminton, and every competition I play in, I try my very hardest to win, even though I am exercising, I do not feel exerted as I am enjoying myself. And when I do actually win, my toils are rewarded with a satisfying feeling of accomplishment. Laziness, doesn’t sound so bad anymore right? There are also many mental benefits in reducing stress through doing leisure activities you enjoy. Combine this with the advantages of minimising stress through sleeping, and you’ll feel much better than the average person.
While having laziness as a trait is good for you, having a lazy attitude towards life isn’t. Refusing to help someone with their troubles, having no motivation, and never contributing to society isn’t acceptable. Using laziness as an advantage to find easier alternate ways to do tasks is a good thing, but using laziness as an excuse to do nothing helpful for yourself and others is a bad thing. Having laziness as a trait allows us to be more efficient in completing tasks, helps us become less stressed, and still allows us to get things done. NOW, what if I told you being lazy actually isn’t a bad thing, and that you should embrace it, love it, and just accept it.