THE DEVIL INSIDE

As it goes in popular cultural belief, idleness is something which doesn’t go well with creativity. This has hence given rise to a myriad number of idioms and proverbs which go on to condemn people who tend to resort to such idleness. It gets associated to everything from Satanism to being just an outright hedonist. “Idleness is the root of all evil” or “An empty mind is a devil’s home” are some of these quite regularly used.

However all this faineance may not always be baneful. In fact lack of activity may well be one of the most creative phases for an individual. This not only helps one ruminate but also gets some of the wildest imaginations out of you. The world is full of contented bodies and discontented minds. Hence even when you are seemingly lazy, your mind would constantly delve on thoughts which one would have otherwise never even considered. And if you heeded to some of these thoughts and applied it seriously, you would be amazed at how brilliant it turns out to be.

If this rummage of thoughts doesn’t really suit the general definition for laziness, here is another perspective to it. As David Dunham quite aptly quotes-

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness.”

The system of work that we are all part of increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work. Hence the virtue of being lazy helps to manipulate the situation more “effective” just because one is too lazy to continue working hard for it. As a result, this forces ‘out of the box’ thinking, thus effectively and inadvertently getting the best out of the person. Such indolence is the core basis for the technological developments in all fields of interest.How else can you explain the development of the computer? Only because we were too lazy to do the laborious work which otherwise would have required immense manual applications. Or for that matter the development of Wireless internet- because we were too lazy to get out of our beds and walk upto that desktop.

Also when you have had serious lack of activity, only then would you start to think of ways by which you could get of it. This however cannot be generalized, especially in case of hedonists who couldn't care less about the inactivity. However, in normal circumstances, the stagnation in life would effectively get you more invigorated in your quest to undo this quotidian lethargy. Mahatma Gandhi once said

“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy”

In conclusion what is important is the fact that one needs to get into himself the vein for laziness which is constructive. If you are able to tame the devil inside, you may very well be able to master your own fate. I know this sounds crap, so in short

STAY LAZY,STAY HAPPY!