Hunting The Muse

I've been thinking a

I've been thinking a lot about laziness. What it means, etc. Laziness is such a weird concept, because when you're lazy, you're not accomplishing much, but it's with the added judgement that you should be accomplishing more. When someone tells you you are lazy, they are judging against you in a sense. And what's funny about that is if you really should be accomplishing more, being called lazy doesn't exactly make it easier. It's a guilt-ridden concept.

So, I wonder, am I being lazy? Well, what does that question imply... am I accomplishing "enough"? Whose rules or standards to I use to benchmark that? Should I be accomplishing more? I already know that "should" is a stupid word... it's more just about objectives and requirements. Do I have an objective that I am in danger of missing by not fulfilling requirements? That's what a project manager would ask. :)

Or maybe being lazy means something else. Am I not feeling able to accomplish as much as I would like? Am I unfulfilled about my life and am I taking steps to improve it?

Well, there's the rub. Maybe I'm not. And maybe someone else more mean than I am would call me lazy for not doing so. But it isn't laziness, I don't think. It's something else. At least, it wouldn't really help my purposes to look at myself as lazy. It'd just get in the way. Posted by Curt at February 6, 2002 03:40 PM