I struggle with this too, and what further complicates it for me is the way that my parents consistently labelled me "lazy" from a very young age, at which point I was simply frozen with terror at the unhealthy environment I was trapped in growing up. I'm sure that a good portion of the mental chatter I hear now that says I am lazy is the result of their early implanting and repetition of that idea; I just don't know how much, and it makes it more difficult to discern my own feelings about the matter, among the residue of their negative generalizations.

I will say though, I'm patently opposed to the word "lazy"! I think it is mythological at best as a supposed feature of any human spirit, and not a natural state but a reaction to difficult situations. Since it is generally used to describe a person, and not an act, it becomes blaming and shaming, but in my opinion there is always a basis for feelings of inaction that I think is far kinder and healthier (and more reasonable) to focus on, as these seem to me to be borne of perfectly forgivable reactions to our heartbreaks and struggles and is simply what makes us human.

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vonmoxie

“To invent your own life’s meaning is not
easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll
be happier for the trouble.”

— Bill Watterson