We are All Lazy

Did I promise to post weekly?

And did weekly . . . by any chance,  mean every Friday?

Well, I guess we all know why promises are made . . . you know like why rules are made…. Get it?

Am sure you’ve already flagged that an excuse, a terribly lame one for that matter. And if you are kind enough to be candid with me, you’ll most likely say; lazy or slothful!

You are probably right, I was actually watching this meticulously (I totally stole that!) scripted TV serial, Mixology, and I may or may have not been carried away as time ‘flew’ past. Some faint thought, though, gave me solace in that I really needed some time to unwind… you know it’s been a really crazy week… take your time…that kind of stuff?

You should totally watch it by the way. Unless you’re the kind of guy who strongly feels Holywood brainwashes us and subjugates ‘African’ Culture.

Truth of the matter is I couldn’t narrow down on what idea to pen down and am not really a fun of drawing the outline. You know that plan we used to write just before beginning compositions in primary school? So I decide to watch the first episode as ideas come to mind. Turns out, the scriptwriter was way focused than me.

Now that I have publicly admitted to that bout of laziness you might be wondering why I think you all too are no dfferent.

It’s intrinsic to all of us. No one says it aloud but, how many times do we feel it every day?

“I’ll do it later…”

“I don’t have to do it now…”

“I will do it when I wake up in the morning…”

“I will do it when I get home…”

Familiar, right?

Or even that ever-notorious snooze button they deliberately decided to include in your alarm app.

We all want to have a good time; leisure is our best and only hobby. Responsibility though sweet at times we’d would gladly give away and while away time sipping coffee (or any other favorite drink).

While at this level it might not be really that harmful, the same procrastination is carried on to important issues and in its subtlety things fall apart without our realizing.

It’s been fifty or so years since independence and what are stuck with? The same ills that we were fighting on independence day; poverty, illiteracy, and ethnicity, in fact we’ve been so poor at it that we have even invented a greater ill that incessantly keeps proliferating them; Corruption.

The simple solution to all this is voting; but what did we do the other year; we voted in the son of the very man who was the architect of disintegration. Proud weren’t we?  And some still are!

Or take the example of choosing whether to lie or not; or even asking for forgiveness. We all agree that telling the truth would really fell good, compared to carrying the burden of always being wary of their realizing the truth. But we lie all the time, even when it really doesn’t benefit us in any way.  

The relief that comes with being forgiven cannot be overstated, but we all know of guys divorcing or already divorced, battling issues in court etc. just because they couldn’t apologize and admit they were wrong or unfair or guilty. Some could call it pride, but it is actually laziness…unwillingness to do right.

In college there’s this friend of mine who offered to do our group work one time and we were thrilled. Only to bring a 32 page document complete with footnotes and hyperlinks direct from Wikipedia, and the CAT was worth ten marks!! Dude thought he did us a favour. Oh, but he’s not alone, the lengths to which students are willing to go just to complete that degree is sickening. Shockingly even undergraduates do it.

Then there’s the habitual latecomer trait that I believe lies somewhere in all of us that once triggered has no off button. You don’t have regular sleeping hours, deadlines are your sworn enemies, you bite more than you can chew and you believe you are good at what you do. But then time is resource that you cannot have monopoly over.  You might say you keep time, but if you’ve never been late raise your hand, and then tell me what motivates you?

Most probably your life depends on it, your children, your grades or your social status. So does that make you hardworking? you are afraid, you have to follow the rules. If you had a choice would brave the chilling morning? You probably would very much love breakfast in bed and maybe laugh away at Kingangi’s jokes and walk your kid to school.

This one am sure; you’d love to just pop in at your employees at mid-morning and see all is in control; bully them a little so they know you’re the boss and then head off to handle some other “business”.  But now you’re on the other side of the ring. So you aren’t lazy?

This couldn’t be complete without bashing the “writer’s block”. That’s what they call it when they can’t create time to write or have the balls to put out there their untested ideas for people to consume and give their own biased opinions. Some pseudo-writer somewhere gets lucky and writes a few inspired pieces and when suddenly he realizes he can’t match up the previous, he claims he suddenly can no longer write. Like one day your creative tanks just run dry!

Speaking of which, did you guys watch Larry Madowo ‘interviewing’ Babu Owino on the Trend? Really, did we need to have been treated to such a spectacle on national TV? Is that why he was excited to be back on our screens! National TV should have programs that embrace our collective interests not some crap about a squabble. Hilarious it was I agree but really? That’s super lazy Journalism