"To do things you want to do instead of things that you need to do, to be able to tell the difference between wants and needs, the lack of motivation to do something or the irresponsibility of not doing things that need to be done" this is my interpretation of laziness. Today laziness is growing more and more popular, getting out of shape, not doing chores, or procrastinating to the last minute to finish something. So many Americans fall under this category, including myself. But for me, through out high school I definitely fell under this category. I procrastinated to do homework assignments, and most of the time didn't fully complete the assignment or just ended up not doing it at all. I wasn't necessarily out of shape, but I was lazy in the term of not doing things to be in shape, such as working out. I kept telling my self that I was going to work out, but always made up excuses that I'll do it later. But now its like i don't have enough time in the day to do everything i want to do, then find my self staying up late and having lack of sleep and having to catch up on my off days because I don't want to go to bed until I'm satisfied that I've completed and accomplished enough tasks for that day.
Bad roommates also fall in this category, people not wanting to do the dishes or help out around the apartment or house even when it comes to simple, small things such as picking up after yourself. People cant see the difference in needs and wants. My dad use to tell me, and still does, that on Sundays, his only day off, he wants to relax and enjoy it, but he knows that there is yard work that has to be done. He says, "Nobody wants to do the things that need to be done, hell I don't even want to, but now that I do it I don't have to worry about it later on and I can continue my day doing things that I want to do after I finish the things I need to do."
Everyone talks about being out of shape and wanting to be thinner or leaner in some cases. And I understand that it is genetics that people look how they do and theres not much you can always do about it. But for those who let themselves get out of shape out of pure laziness is ridiculous, because it's not that hard to simply go out and exercise. And by exercising it can be from walking down the road or back, something simple, it doesn't have to be some hard work out. For me my coaches and everyone always bugged me about working out because I'm a bean pole, and I know it. Through out high school I wanted to go work out and put on weight, or simply just get bigger. But I was lazy and made up excuses why I didn't want to work out that day, or I'd tell my self that I'd do it over some break, then end up not doing it because I "wanted" to do something else instead of doing something that I needed to do.
To be honest I am super tired and really wanted to do a rant on something more broad such as the topics, Illegal Immigration and how people could think that it is okay, or the current war we are in and rant about the thought of how Americans can speak so lowly about our military service and what they are doing right now. So I hope we get an assignment such as this one later on so I can rant on those topics. But for now I will have to settle for ranting on laziness because my self got caught up in different things that kept adding up today. Such as cleaning up after my brother and doing a boat load of dishes that he was suppose to do, and he was putting off, and I saw them as something that needed to be done now not later. Then I got caught up on cleaning up around the apartment, taking out the trash throwing boxes away because some people, *cough* my brother and his girl friend *cough* simply didn't want to take the 1-3 minutes it would take to take care of it themselves.
p.s. I apologize if there are a lot of uncapitalized i's because I just started typing and unfortunately auto spell doesn't work so great on the blog like I thought it would so I probably missed a few in there.
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