When a person becomes accountable to himself, he has to take a stance on entropy. In common language we could call this laziness. It may be the most severe original sin. In the story of Adam and Eve one could wonder why they didn’t bother to ask God for the reason they weren’t allowed to eat from the tree before they took a bite. Were they afraid of their Creator? It seems unlikely. They had, as we do too, the freedom to choose when faced with stimulus. As far as I understand, they also had the opportunity to start a conversation with God.
Why were they lacking the willingness then? Could it be the same missing part, which could help people today defeat the devil of laziness- entropy? There is a saying – perfect love casts out fear. On the grounds of this, one could state if our love were great enough, we wouldn’t fear change either and along with greater love we could defeat our innate laziness wanting us in its grip.
I have stumbled upon many definitions of love during my life, but this is one of the best:
Love is the desire to enlarge oneself and aspiring to nourish the mental growth of one’s neighbor.
For this to be possible, one’s own mental growth must be cured. One has to desire and be capable of loving oneself before one is able to love someone else. True caring is to love another person’s possibilities more than judging their limitations. When love is formulated like this it can well be understood as the opposite of laziness, right?
How can laziness be detected then? It is best detected when mental growth is required. Laziness rises up every time one’s self needs to change. The entropic force says: Not yet, it’s not worth it, it won’t benefit you, it has never succeeded before. Why bother in vain? Let the others do it for you; you’ve deserved a rest. And so on. Entropy is an invisible inner friction feeling immensely powerful. It’s mental quicksand, which doesn’t seem to have a touch point at all. Laziness has nothing to do with the amount of work done, as funny as that sounds.
When reading this you may react (watch out for the backbone reaction!) strongly by saying, you work 40-50 hours a week, give time to your family and other valuable things. “How could I be lazy?” Active and hard working we may be, we must honestly admit, laziness lives within all of us. Most of our fears have to do with change and you may be working very hard to preserve your present conditions and circumstances.
It’s very hard for the human mind to surrender something it owns in order to get something of value which is yet unknown, at the threshold of change.
Laziness can be rejected. Most of us do this on some level every day. It happens simply by listening to the exhorting side of our inner dialogue and beginning to act accordingly. Laziness is best rejected when working towards one’s inner growth. When you learn to value your own mental growth as more important than anything else, others will begin to benefit. You always have the chance to choose something different. We can choose between good and evil. Both sides continuously exist and both sides send their signals to us in one way or another.