Hello readers! How feeling you are, hmmm? When not a light-side day you are having, a powerful Medi mind trick laughter is. May something funny be with you.
I don’t know where that came from. Well… I guess I do. …From a space far far away in my imagination.
I hope you are doing well enough to raise a thumb up in the air.
Today I want to go inner space again, and explore another mind phenomenon. Something very near and present to all of us. A powerful mind villain known to be a giant adversary among us human folk for a millennias. It is called Perezoso in Spanish, Landuo de in Chinese, Lenivyy in Russian, and Tempelis in Greek.
Of course, it is known by a different word in all the other languages of our world, but in English it is called Lazy.
Readers, lock your doors and windows! Lazy is still a problem for a lot of us today! Though Lazy is seemingly a harmless little problem working in our minds, for some of us it has been known to help cost us jobs, our marriages, and families to fail. And has also been known to cost people their status of good health and personal property to suffer from serious neglect. Quick, write your Congress or Senator person! Something’s’ gotta be done! No wait. On second thought, don’t bother them. They might be having trouble with the Lazy Villain in their own lives!
You might be wondering, is Monsieur blogger trying to put me on the hot seat? Nope. No way! Because I’m reserving the hot seat just for me.
Where should I start? Let me see… Let’s go back to my teenage days. We’ll start there.
My mom told me to have the kitchen floor mopped by the time she got home from work, at 3:15 in the afternoon. School was out. I was on summer vacation, so I had all day to get the kitchen floor mopped. No problem. That is, until Lazy got into my head. So I let Lazy take control of me. But it was okay. I appreciated Lazy.
I followed Lazy’s schedule to the letter. Starting in the morning, I followed Lazy’s schedule of watching TV shows, eating snacks, and making room for a lot of couch-time. But I promised myself that when I got these things out of the way, I would throw Lazy out of my mind and get the kitchen floor mopped. Easy peasy, right?
Yeah, but you know what they say about how time flies, don’tcha? Yep. At nine minutes after three o’clock, I got that funny feeling you get when you think a block buster is about to land on you. I checked the clock, shrieked in terror, and hastened to fetch the mop and bucket!
Lazy immediately left me and abandoned me to my fate! And as it so happened, before I could get more than a few square feet of the kitchen floor mopped, I heard my mom driving into the driveway. But she was early! But still, maybe I was too late! Darn that Lazy! Leaving me with a completely useless alibi to tell my mother!
In seconds my mom came into the house and saw me trying to be a good son. First she quizzed me on what time I was supposed to have the floor mopped and dried. Secondly, she asked me why I couldn’t get the floor mopped earlier in the day? I didn’t have a good answer. So finally she asked if I would be so kind as to wait patiently in the kitchen until she could locate one of my dad’s well made leather belts. Like Mr. William Shakespeare probably would have put it, “Oh woe is me! I am undone! Alas, my poor backside. I knew it well!”
I have to admit, that in no way was Lazy the culprit. Me listening to Lazy’s viewpoint, suggesting that I should have a lazy attitude about how to handle my responsibilities, was. Now that I’m grown, I can see that. Okay, here’s round two of me being on the hot seat.
This time, I’m a young adult. I use to habitually agree with Lazy that I shouldn’t go to work until it was almost impossible for me to get there on time. Everyday I took a lazy attitude about not dressing for work early enough, and not getting my lunch together early enough. A lazy attitude had been getting me by so far. So why should I change? But when you take into account that I had already been two days late in a row, this particular week, and was working on my third late-to-work write-up…? Correction?! Huh! I was no longer working on it. I did achieve my third being-late-for-work write-up. My lazy attitude towards getting to work on time paid me back with a three day suspension without pay.
Now I’ve been saving my best hot seat story for last.
I had a mini pickup truck I adored about 3 decades ago. It was shiny black and… Maybe I should just stick to the important facts. Well, I agreed with Lazy to constantly put off changing the pickup’s motor oil. The truck was over four or five years old, and it was somewhere well over the 3000 mile oil changing limit at the time. But I kept telling myself it would be okay, and that I had time. Agreeing to take Lazy’s viewpoint as my very own, I got into the practice of constantly neglecting to change the truck’s motor oil. And so… And so… Is it just me or is it hot in here? Oh I know what it is. I’m sitting on the hot seat!
My lazy attitude cost me a truck engine and a new starter, all because I listened to Lazy’s viewpoint. The result was that the motor seized up and broke internally. One of the pistons even knocked a hole in the lower engine block and broke loose the starter.
Are you starting to see how Lazy can be a problem yet? I can. Agreeing with Lazy has caused me punishment, loss of money, and tooth grinding inconvenience. And if we agree to work with Lazy about keeping healthy, Lazy can cause us some real health regrets.
Now before I unhandle the keyboard, let me type a little at ya about what I know about handling Lazy.
The most unpopular way, it seems, is the buddy system. This is because we tend to want to keep people out of our business, and handle being lazy on our own, without anyone bothering us. Another way is prayer and to actively practice beating Lazy. But still, without an understanding and respectful buddy, working with us, we might be inclined not to worry about being lazy all that much.
My best suggestion is to pray to God for His help to beat Lazy, and to actually say out loud, often, why we think we should be lazy. Admitting our dependence on being lazy will help us to judge just how much Lazy has taken hold of our ability to break free of it.
I fight Lazy all the time. I win a lot, but I lose a few battles too. The one’s I win, I win by focusing real hard on just how important it is that I get something done. And also on how much people are counting on me to get something done on time.
Watch out for your feelings. They usually agree with not wanting to fight off something like Lazy. But take a long look at what happens when we don’t.
I appreciate you being a reader of this blog. I’m hoping that you will be blessed and stay blessed. B Y E.