Since the young days, we all were thought that laziness is equal to evil. I believed in this idea for quite some time, until I realized that it was a BS idea. For me, laziness is the best feeling ever when I can control it rather than surrendering to it.
Does this dog look unhappy to you?
Of course, I am totally against someone being lazy all the time and just wasting his life doing nothing. It sucks when people (or dogs for that matter) do that. However, laziness itself is not the problem on those occasions.
If you learn how to control laziness, you'll know how to control anything.
Laziness is one of the strongest feelings out there. It has this tendency to grab you right by your balls and not let it go. I must say, it fascinates me. And the best part about it is that you can so often feel how laziness is slowly approaching and there is no place to run. Those moments are desperate enough to make you rethink everything you knew about yourself.
We, humans, are pretty fragile and weak compared to the force of emotions and feelings. I don't think we can ever fully control them and that is what keeps me working hard. Yup, paradoxically, laziness also keeps me working hard.
Whenever I feel that I am lazy, I let myself enjoy that moment for a little, then take myself back together and keep pushing even harder.
There is no way to kill laziness. However, we can learn to live with it in peace, and that is when it leaves... at least for a while.
Also, being lazy and having to do stuff is a very good exercise of self-improvement. For instance, I went to sleep late last night, it is a Saturday morning today, and it takes all the willpower in the world for me to write this post. However, I know that I didn't write anything yesterday and if I don't do it today, laziness might take over me forever. Also, I would feel like shit for skipping my daily routine twice in a row...
After all, I can only come up with a solid excuse to fool myself for one time. I am a smart man, and I would never buy the same lie for the second time (sometimes I wish I were stupid). And in those moments, when I am working with my lazy mode on, I realize how great of a man I grew up to be.
You cannot appreciate things that come easily to you. It is stupid, I know, but it also makes people work hard for their goals.
And so, I have this funny relationship with laziness. I hate it, but I also know that it only means good to me. Laziness takes me to the place in which I can either fail miserably or start learning new things and appreciating life. And you know what? If I am weak enough to fall into the trap of laziness, so be it... We get what we deserve, and it means that people who let laziness control them are the ones who don't want to be otherwise. However, those people can never blame laziness for their faults, because they always have a chance to kick laziness in the face and start acting.
Laziness is my favorite feeling, which catalyzes every other emotion that I ever have.