You’re Not Lazy (And Neither Am I)

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Have you noticed that a Lazy Sunday is a very good thing, but a lazy person is a very bad thing?

Anybody who doesn’t pull their weight, earn their keep, or paddle their own canoe is just disgusting at a time when so much needs doing…

(which is all the time, right?)

…they just need to get up off their asses and get with the program. They’ve got too much going for them to just sit around not doing anything. They’ve got brains and skills and abilities and potential….all that wasted potential. How the hell can they just sit around doing nothing? And they look as lazy as they are. Disgusting.

This is what I’ve heard other people say about other people. This is what I hear myself say about myself. And after swallowing enough of it?…it starts to taste like Truth.

Except for one thing.

There’s no such thing as a lazy person.

Active is our natural state. We’re built to move around and get stuff done. We have agile minds and bodies that autonomously prepare (and repair) for the next adventure—if we give them tools and time enough.

I don’t have medical research to back that up, and I don’t need any. I just know I’m most delighted when I’m preparing to Do, neck deep in the Doing , and chilling out after all’s Done. Doing does it for me and I imagine it’s the same for everyone.

And I’m miserable when aimlessly idle. I don’t mean resting or relaxing or daydreaming…those are active in their own way, and I love doing those. I mean when I’m apathetic or indifferent or bored.

When I’ve slowed down and can’t get moving again, it feels awful. And it feels unnatural. Like I’m feeling it happen to someone else. That’s when I know for sure that I’m stuck.

Like: STUCK.

Not: Lazy.

So.

Don’t call yourself lazy. And don’t let Them get away with it either.

Lose the guilt. Give Them the finger. Laziness isn’t a willful refusal to contribute and produce…it isn’t the cardinal sin of sloth.

Laziness is a symptom of being—

in Mourning

in Recovery

Angry

Exhausted

Embittered

Dehydrated

Depressed

Demotivated

Disorganized

Distracted

Disappointed

Conflicted

Undernourished

Uninspired

Unwell

Unmotivated

Uncentered

Unfocused

Undercommitted

Overwhelmed

and maybe just a little low on Mojo

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How I Get Unstuck

I Remember

I read

I write

I cook

I listen

I tap in

I tidy up

I tidy up some more

I take a walk

I take a nap

I take a breath (or 30)

I knit

Sometimes I sits and thinks

and other times I just sits

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Et tu?

What laziness dis-ease sources did I miss? Which ones do you feel? And what do you do to get unstuck? Lemme know down below…

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