“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.” .... Good enough to tempt even the most hardened of the anti-preachy-activists, to 'wish' that this were a dictum 'officially' allowed, in those list of morals, ethics, etc....
Right from kid days, I used to observe, a few people, labelled as 'lazy', getting their things managed somehow! .... A few of them even manage a decent score at exams, and wonder of wonders, they even produce original stuff (not that text-book stuff, copy-paste via memory...).
That led me to wonder, if they were also un-lethargic or non-lethargic (which ever way it is....)...... these people, whom I could distinguish from other lazy ones only by that 'extra-sparkle' in their eyes! Not likely.....! So, that lethargy must be the real culprit, not the laziness itself.... Laziness does affect, but at various levels, depending on the extent to which a person is 'differently-abled-at-intelligence-levels'... Some things have got to be done by oneself, however lazy we feel... again there are exceptions.... some people just physically-less-abled, make up enormously for this, with their extra-ordinary intellectual contributions (The great Mr. Stephen Hawking for example... !)... A casual observer would readily find fault with the tradition of feeding those 'lazy-unproductive-wandering-mendicants' in ancient India.
What is it that actually happens, when the mind becomes lazy? Now that we have seen that the physical laziness (for all that appearance only...), does not really matter... Those big 'business' magnates owning several companies, may not even remember all the names of those companies that they own..... somebody else is there to slog it out for them, earn for them, and work for a paltry salary, while they enjoy sipping a drink at Honululu cheerfully, gazing the waves of the ocean! Those business kings are not 'busy' but lazy... So, busi-ness is not essentially about keeping busy (those gadgets we invented and innovated was to take out our tie-up with stone pestles etc!)
We had a few 'lazy' teachers who managed cheerfully, while the students had to slog-extra, to make up for the lack of 'detailed' explanations, ready-to-eat-notes for exams etc... These teachers never faltered when somebody asked doubts... and when such doubts were with a 'hidden-agenda' to prod those teachers, they sensed it almost instantly ( lazy-ness blesses with that extra-alertness, with nothing else to do!?...)... and such students were 'dealt' according to the concepts enshrined in jurisprudence, with regard to the punishment theory.... the degree was directly proportional to the 'hidden-intent'...
If we try to look at the 'mechanics' of those bosses who delegate almost everything to juniors, and thus happen to nurture a 'deep sense of grudge' for over-exploitation in 'hearts' of those juniors, this narrative would go too long... We are all well versed with those details, at least the 'one-side-of-the-case' well!
Though there is not much material to sift through, about that lethargy, the elusive culprit seems to be only that! 'Thinking' hard , may not exclusively constitute the avoidance of that lethargy.... Just repetitive chain of thoughts seems to keep us busy, but to no result (for example, we know, when we run out funds, and go through the sources ... the possible limited-list-of-victim-lenders... when the 'security' to seek from 'hard-lenders' is inadequate!........ we just try to keep visualising the innocent faces again and again, but that does not lead us anywhere... when such sources have dried up.... it is merely a 'hope-against-hope'!)...
Can it be that 'energy' is the possible antidote for lethargy? Those meditative people sitting 'idle' for seemingly infinite length of time, seem to have a blazing pair of eyes, when we find them gently opening their eyes once in a while!.... We have to try it out... We may have to strike a fine balance... keep physical fitness, to avoid that laziness overpowering our 'chemistry'.... we have to consciously slow down the needless activity of mind (anyways, the mind becomes hyper-active when we try out with lip-level-silence!)... and then look at the pristine energy within, allow it to 'rise', see if it is going to charge our intellect, and drive out the lethargy from within.... Till then, maybe... maybe... we have to silently suffer that hidden 'dis-ease' called lethargy.... (I wonder, if medical science is able to give any off-the-shelf-pills for lethargy, to then easily pop it into our mouth, and declare 'eureka' !)... Non-lethargic people seem to really enjoy that 'peace' better than those busy-looking-people, who slog-and-yet-suffer!
(I wonder whether it is 'my' laziness or that lethargy latent 'in-me', that surged to find expression thus.....! Spirituality seems to have confused me yet again!... I might have, inadvertently tried out those 'lethal' doses of both, quite intermittently!)
psn(3rd April, 2012)
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