Sloth – the mother of all evils?
Is sloth the biggest vice of them all? I am not just referring to the seven sins but amongst all the bad adjectives that one can think about a person – is sloth the worst?
Well, the answer may be yes. The writer’s theory is that laziness is the source of most bad personality traits.
1. Someone who came across as stupid after having failed to answer a simple geography question in a cocktail party may be a victim of lethargy preventing him from expanding his knowledge.
2. A person whom most call not so bright can actually be a bright person too laid-back to exert his mental faculties. Had he read that book four times instead of once, he might have been able to answer that smart question of yours!
3. An unkempt/poorly dressed guy is just another indolent fellow who refuses to put even the slightest effort to look good for others’ sake (yes one tries to looks good for the “world”! but that is another blog for another time).
4. An eternally anxious man is just shy to think through! Yes I said “think through” – one’s anxiety about most matters can be greatly reduced if one tries to imagine all possible scenarios for the situation in question, think of all worst outcomes and all counteractions. No one fears the known, it is mostly the unknown that we fear. This exercise is a lot of work but as I said our hero is lazy and hence anxious.
5. A careless man is either nonchalant (how the writer loves this word) or just reluctant to weigh the results of this actions
6. The mean guy in your office may just be shying away from thinking through and realizing the long-term consequences of spoiling his relationships with people
7. A blogger who writes in bullet points is too lazy to weave the points together into a good paragraph. We all know a poor writer is a sloppy one too.
Bottom-line, everybody is lazy but the lethargy manifests in different ways. No finger pointing at the writer please!
Footnotes: Yes, the writer did a thesaurus for “lazy” !
