LAZINESS IS SOMETIMES GOOD!

Okay, we all have to admit that at times we are all lazy.

There are some who have nervous or mental disorders who have to be doing something nearly every second of the day. These people are abborations from the norm in present Western society.

For the rest of us, we are for the most part, more lazy than a bear in hibernation.

Come on, don't you ask for someone else to hand you this or that, put that plate away, do this or that? Be honest.

But laziness can be good! Really! Think about it, most of the modern conveniences have been invented because people are lazy. If we weren't lazy, we would not have remote controls or channel selectors. We would get up each time we wanted to change the television channel; and with cable or satellite with those 100's of channels, whew, that would be something getting up each time. Just think of how much weight we would lose just by getting up and switching the station passed each commercial! If we were not a lazy people, we would have no remotes on the TV, VCR, Radio, you name it.

And forget car alarms. We would have to manually unlock the door each time. And no garage door openers. We would get out and open it and close it each time.

Heck, the whole concept of a car was because someone decided it would be easier to ride a vehicle rather than saddle up the horse, hop on and plod down the road toward town. Or walk to the train or steet-car. And even the horse tack was invented because people were tired of walking to everywhere, especially when you had to carry something.

Automobiles make traveling and going to the store, work, so much easier, because we are lazy. And one of the side effects is that it saves us much more time. No one wants to spend two hours walking to work, the store, etc.

Laziness has driven people to be more efficient with their work. That's what has driven inventors to make everything from paperclips to computers! How much liquid paper-or before that, do you remember those little correcto-slips used when you typed some errors? And before the typewriter people had to correspond, now get this, I know it may be difficult for some of you to imagine, in Long Hand! That's like getting a piece of paper out, and pen or pencil and writing; and hopefully thinking before hitting send and sending a mis-spelled garbled document to someone. And before that, books of ancient times had to be hand-written, letter by letter, line by line, and if you goofed up...yikes paper was expensive for the king to purchase and scribes were a dime a dozen-or maybe a farthing a score!

Computers have allowed us to be super lazy. We can sit there and zap off silly messages to our friends and foes with ease. Before we would have to write letters, address the envelope, trek down to the Post Office and buy a couple stamps and send them off. Now, we can let whatever is on the tip of our tongues trip off our fingers right into someone else's brain without that much thought. That can be both bad and good...mostly bad I think.

But this is a lazy society, so who is paying that much attention anyway?



A.A.