Lazy Idiots

Being a senior in college, being lazy sounds like a luxury. If I get a free day and don't have too much homework, you can bet I'll be in my pajamas all day and take a long bubble bath. I don't want to think about doing anything on days like this besides a little reading and maybe some TV. But the most luxurious, hard-to-get thing of all is that glorious sleep. It doesn't come very often when I have to stay up late doing homework or working one of my two jobs.

I'm okay with taking a lazy day every now and then, though. I feel like I've earned it. They are rare and precious because of all of the other crazy things I have going on. Other people don't know how to value something like that because they don't know what it means to actually work hard. They waste their lives on nothingness until they realize that they are past their prime and mooching off someone else. They are idiots.

This happens pretty frequently with college freshmen. They don't know what it means to put real effort into something, and it takes them completely by surprise when they don't just skim by. For many of them, they are also having to support themselves (at least partially) on a financial level for the first time. They either have to learn to adapt or drop out.

Other people never really learn that lesson. They don't try to better themselves. They don't look for work. They don't try to gain independence. They just look for handouts.

This is not meant to target any demographic or financial bracket, though. Laziness comes from all walks of life. It can appear in the form of a person who never tries to get off welfare, or it can be a rich heiress who doesn't know what it means to work for something.

Personally, I'm thinking of a family member who was fired in June for never showing up to work. He lives with my grandmother and doesn't pay rent. He helps her out around the house, but he hasn't even looked for a job. He worked at a haunted house for less than a month over Halloween, and now nothing else can compare. He was given a car, has free satellite and internet, and makes no effort to move up in life.

I just don't understand it. Yes, laziness can be great in moderation, but taking it to the extreme is just idiotic.