Last night was Tuesday, which means last night was pint night, which means I drank my heart out on $2.50 Newcastle. Classic case of cause and effect.
The waitresses at the Fox and the Hound are renown for making up for their slowness of service (and mentality) with deep V-neck shirts. The slower, the deeper.
Waitress: I can't wait for the beer list to be updated so I don't have to remember everything we have!
So what's Jeremie's take on this? He walks into the bar, joins our group, looks around at the selection of waitresses, and says, "We better not have no lazy skankin' ass bitch waiting on us." Oh yeah, he had also waited about 5 minutes for someone to come take his order, so it was called for. Miaya and I are still laughing at that new string of words.
Anyway, what Jeremie said ties into what I wanted to write about: Laziness.
Here are a few semi-relevant thoughts about laziness:
1. There is some amount of lazy in everybody and we have all encountered people we feel are 12 times more lazy than we are.
-Insert picture of Dagwood-
2. People arent doing what they ought to do, but not because of a lack of mobility, but a lack of motivation; it's more disinterest than anything.
3. Anxieties about failing can keep you from starting and/or completing a task. And even if it is started, there's a noticeable pattern of delay. This thought interests me because this tackles unresolved self doubts - a monster in all of us.
4. If you don't feel challenged by a task, it shows when you hesitate starting it or do a mediocre job.
5. It's really just not worth the effort.
Consider this excerpt from Psychology Today:
"Even though what we label procrastination may relate simply to poor time management, the act of procrastinating may also be motivated principally by the fear of failure. And such being a delaying tactic (commonly seen as depicting some sort of "laziness") generally goes back to our having learned in childhood that we weren't good enough if our performance was somehow flawed ..In fact, much of what we describe as perfectionism derives from having grown up in a home where our parents held us to realistically high standards that, unless we could meet them, led to us constantly being criticized."
Aaaand that's some self-reflection for a gloomy day and a pile of pills.
What have you been "lazy" about, and what is at the root of that laziness? If its affecting others or, more importantly, your productivity and happiness, is it something you can tackle?