There is a difference between lazy and efficient. My wife will say I am lazy. I don’t remember hearing that when I was getting up every morning to go to work while she slept in but I would hear it on week-ends. We obviously have different understandings of the two words.
Lazy is when something that needs to be done is put off. I don’t mean a few minutes. Usually it is put off forever or until it will kill you, whichever comes first. There is suffering associated with it because what needed to get done damages the chances of survival. Thus if I don’t hoe the corn the harvest is smaller and someone goes hungry.
Efficient is when something that does not need to be done is ignored. I don’t think I ever made a bed until I was approaching retirement. I don’t know that anyone ever went hungry because of it. I don’t think our home insurance ever required a bed check. Eventually I got to where I enjoyed the look of neatness enough to make it each morning but I don’t think I ever got my salary raised because I did that. Why make a bed when you are going to mess it up a few hours later? Inefficient.
Check your definitions and adjust your attitude.
homo unius libri
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