Talk Lazy To Me
Breaking free from the Industrial Revolution
We are conditioned to think in terms of goals. Don’t get me wrong, I love a goal as much as the next delusional person, but if everything is a goal, that means you’re constantly playing some sort of game.
People enjoy watching baseball for a few hours, but will they enjoy watching baseball for 8-12 hours? By the same token you need time to wander in the desert. To disconnect from the hamster wheel that society puts you on.
I would imagine that even after you retire, you still feel addicted to the hamster wheel.
We conditioned ourselves to work, and by attaching a sense of self-worth to the work we do, we continually reinforce the idea that you are worthless unless you are working or even better, sweating under the gruelling conditions of a full schedule.
I am not capable of doing the double whammy that the industrial revolution asked of our grandparents which is working five days a week AND being productive. I am not capable of being productive every week of the year, and now that I think of it, not even every week of the month.
I wish people would talk more freely about how lazy they are. How much of a struggle it is to live up to their family’s grinding work ethic of manufacturing children, having a detached house, cars, filling those cars up with gas, and all the condiments of life that get vacuumed out of our bank accounts every three days.
And this is not written with a begrudging, negative vibe. Because it’s quite obvious that the point of this life is to take lemons, which is code for whatever situation you’ve ended up in, and make tasty lemonade out of it.
No one’s going to guarantee happiness for you in this life, so you better stop sitting around and planning how you’re going to be more happy.
When your free time suddenly has a ton of commitments, to the point that your weekend vacation also feels like work, I have this to say: The longer you spend fretting about the future, the less time you have to look at the moment in front of you.
In the same way that browsing online shops is a way to remove money from your bank account, thinking about future commitments is a way of removing time from the present moment.
If there is one takeaway I can try to offer you from the above: Don’t feel guilty about “wasting” time.
Meditation is one way that people waste time. Noodling at the guitar even though I have homework to do on it, is a perfect waste of time. The noodling is where your unique style is created. Playing video games which help take your mind off of the dumpster fire happening in one corner of your life is totally legit.
Once in a while, give yourself full permission to be a loser by society’s overrated standards.
Because as I’ve reminded you many times before here, in the end, we’re all going to become a decaying mass of bones 6 feet under or a fluffy cloud of dust dumped in the Ganges river alongside Jerry Garcia.
The sooner you realize that you do not actually exist, that you are a temporary expression of energy moving from one object to another, the sooner you will be free from our grandparent’s industrial revolution.
Thanks for reading today, I wish you a great week ahead 🧡🥯🧡
Elliott
A slow, lazy walk with my dog. ClockLess. AppLess. No pace checks. No step counter. No end game. Slow burn. Lazy wins. Thanks for the nudge. Great post. Especially enjoyed the nod to Jerry ;)