These days, when you hear someone say something makes him lazy, you put his hands on his head, a sloth is not worthy of the approval of the social system, because he is considered a coward who cannot fulfill his obligations and we even come to consider him as an inferior person, a fragile person without will.
Clearly, all humans experience laziness to a greater or lesser degree, and the reasons behind it are evolutionary, like all our emotions, laziness also has one function: to reduce our energy expenditure, so that we always have reservations when we need them.
Hominids take the option of exercising laziness during the time when it is impractical to waste brain glucose.
Laziness was an energy saving because there was not always an excess of nutrients, so being dominated by it could sometimes be a very suitable measure for our survival, currently this laziness is no longer so useful, but many of us continue to develop it. feel guilty afterwards.
Society has instilled in us the idea that laziness makes us inferior beings, who deserve the criticism and derogatory looks of the rest of the social group, so we quickly feel guilty.
Many times we think that we are too lazy and do not carry out certain activities that we have decided to undertake ourselves, we justify ourselves by saying that we will do so at another time when we have more willpower or energy, however, we finally realize that this will not happen.
Fears can be masked in different ways and laziness is usually one of the favorite masks of fear of achieving something and that things are not going to be perfect, or to assume what we have at hand. that may not be approved by our environment. In this sense, laziness acts as an escape tool of reality.
“If we realize that this happens with certain frequency, we will have to remove the mask of these fears and act, whether we like it or not.
Turns out laziness calls laziness. That is, the more weight we give to this state of indolence, the more reluctant we will feel and the less we will have to get out of inactivity, which will have a negative impact on our fears, which will grow stronger. to rationalization of?
That is why it is so important to identify whether we really want to take a break, get rid of the demands and obligations we have imposed on ourselves and return to our own inner homeostasis, or if we are afraid to undertake things that we know are important to us.
The fed fear grows and becomes widespread: it brings more fears, which end up imprisoning us almost completely.
Stopping laziness doesn’t mean moving from one end to the other and starting to meet our agenda of unnecessary obligations, not just that, having so many obligations can increase the strength of laziness to such an extent that it can eventually beat us when we least love. That.
It is right, and it is quite valid, not to be so extreme and to create a space for our personal pleasure, far beyond what we should or should not do.
To do this we should leave the sofa and television that imprison us in the deepest famine and do not help us to feel full or realized, ideally use this laziness for leisure and leisure.
Laziness is not the same as laziness, did the Romans introduce this term to differentiate it from business?Denial of idleness, that is, what is done to obtain an income and to be able to live. With leisure, the person performs these activities that please him in a profound way, which he carries in him in a more natural way.
If so we can join business and leisure, then we will be very privileged people, because we will benefit from having fun or doing a pleasant activity.
Laziness, in turn, is understood as the inability to engage in commercial or recreational activities, and thus sows the seed of abandonment, sustained fatigue and even depression, as it produces no more feedback than guilt.
That is why it is best to always stay in the middle, which, as Aristotle said, is where virtue is: not to get carried away by the absolutist obligations of our time, nor to surrender to laziness.
The sensible thing to do is to walk to where we are active, we feel useful and we have goals and, in addition, we have time to dedicate it to ourselves, to family, friends and to enjoy life.