Are we just plain lazy?

How many times have we heard the little voice in us that keep persuading us to take the easy way out from situation? How many times have you succumbed to the little voice and decided to take that little break that, in the end, take away half of your life idling in comfort?

I guess all of us hear this little voice many a time. The difference is that some of us decided to acknowledge the voice as time for a little break and others use it as an excuse to run away from challenges in their life. For myself, I guess life has been too comfortable that I have grown a little lazy. Lazy to look into my life more often, too lazy to look into my finances, too lazy to look into breakthrough in my thought, too lazy to acknowledge and solve things that are going wrong…

I have learnt through the hard way that as easy as it is to be lazy, the price to pay when you finally wake up is double what it should be if you had taken time to look into the challenges when you can. I read a book recently. It says that by ignoring the challenges in our life and indulging in short term comfort, we are actually creating long term pain in our life. Some people can escape forever from jumping from one focus to another as they refuse to face the challenges in their life. They shift focus so that there is nothing to focus on in the end. This means no pain to focus on, no decision to focus on and of course in the end, no dream to focus on and no happiness in life to focus on.

Perhaps the pain involve in facing our challenges is too great, too big that our current mindset and character is not strong enough to handle it. But isn’t it faster to grow muscle by lifting weight that is above our normal threshold? To accelerate a car, shouldn’t we step on the accelerator in order to reach a higher speed? By maintaining the status quo, nothing can be changed. In fact, we will only grow old to finally feel the sense of regret of not doing the things that we should do to realize our dreams. We can only grow stronger by facing harder challenges. Brain muscles grow from facing bigger challenges in our life.

Are we just plain lazy to face these challenges? Yes we are but the more important question is; are we asking ourselves the right question when facing challenges? If we ask ourselves the right question, we would finally realize that there is no time to be lazy. No justification for laziness. No way to be lazy as laziness is deadly. When laziness set in, it claims not only your will to do things. Laziness when allow to breed will claim your dreams, claim your character and finally claim all the happiness you deserve.

So the right question to ask is; can we afford laziness? If you are filthy rich, do you want laziness to claim your right to having a better character or accomplish a dream? If you are young, would you want laziness to claim your youth? Maybe there are people who can afford to be lazy as they are happy just the way they are. However if you look deep within yourself and you can sense a fire in you that still shimmers, would that fire one day die out and you feel that you have lost the sparks in your life, your glimmer of hope, the light at the end of the tunnel?

We are not sure if being diligent will help you achieve your dream but I am sure that if you start indulging in laziness and ignore your dreams and passion, you will have live a life that you are not passionate about as there is simply nothing in your life you can fight for to create the fiery passion.

“What’s life when passion is covered by laziness?”

~James Tan~