BEING LAZY IS BEING SMART

I do not like doing a work if it is possible to avoid it. There are two caveats to this.

1.  No significant adverse effects on health: mine, the persons around me and the people I am responsible for.

2.  No appreciable fall in the weight of my wallet.

After the laundry I left one pair of my washed shocks downstairs near my shoes instead of taking it up to the tall boy drawer upstairs. My wife immediately labeled me lazy. But it makes so much sense. Next day when I am getting ready to go out l just pick it up from the floor and put the shoes on. Being organized is not being lazy, it is being smart. Isn’t it?

I am called lazy when I shout to Google Home Assistant to put the lights on. If you can get the work done by wagging your tongue, then it makes no sense for wasting valuable energy in getting up and walking to the light switch and back again. Add to this the psychological trauma of separation from the cosy, soft and warm sofa!

Now everyone has become used to the idea of using “remote” for changing the channel and volume of TV but about 30 years ago (when one had to pay extra to buy a remotely controlled TV) I was told not to be lazy.

My present car does a lot of things which a decade ago I had to do. It changes the gear, maintains the speed and applies the break if I am about to hit someone or something. It looks up the address where I wish to go and give the directions.  But still I have to control the steering and give the signals. Now I am seriously thinking in buying a car which can drive without much input from me. 

I am waiting for the price to go down so that it does  not contravene the2^nd caveat which I have mentioned before 

This entire advance in science and technology will be worthless if we all refuse to utilise it to avoid wasting time and energy in doing mundane tasks. It makes life easier and frees up valuable time to enjoy with one’s partner, play with kids (or grand kids), read books, watch TV, go for a walk, peruse the social media, discuss politics...the list is endless.

You see, by not being lazy you are destroying the very motivation of scientific inventions and discoveries.

 For being happy and lazy you have to think smart and be clever.

I will end this with a quote from Bill Gates “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”