Kamal Ghorui
These are some of the things on which people do not waste time, or these are some things they claim as time wasters. A hurdle to them skyrocketing their career or personal life or whatever else they are pursuing.
They do not go to buy milk
They do not cook
They do not plan – for provisions, household consumables etc. They get them delivered in 10 minutes, irrespective of whether they need it in 10 minutes. do not come in 10 minutes and do not need in ten minutes
I am not immune either. My laziness – Tamarind concentrate , Chai masala drops, readymade powders of all kinds.
My excuses are Work and leisure, the weather, and WA University
Then an event happens which wakes me up occasionally. Covid was one such event. The present-day LPG crisis and effects of the war have also made me less lazy and more planned. After all, my LPG cylinder cannot be empty. Because of laziness carrying a cylinder to my house warning ceremony in a new flat, I had bought an Induction stove. And a minimal number of Induction friendly vessels. Since I cannot cook on one small stove, I looked for another. “Out of Stock,” a word which should not exist in this 10-to-15-minute delivery world.
This reminded me of my stint forty years ago as an intern in a MNC Pharmaceutical company. They hired a 5-star Chef to head the canteen. The food was delicious. Then there was a vegetable vendor strike. The food was still delicious. And we wondered what secret source or sauce this Chef possessed. Turns out he had thought about and planned over his entire career on how to cook with minimal ingredients . He had anticipatorily stored some vegetables which had a very long shelf life and innovated masterfully.
This set me thinking on some authors and philosophers who I admire. The first one really struck me.
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.” Jane Austen (English novelist, 1775-1817)
That is so true. The e-commerce people , many guys and a few gals, work extra hard and sweat it out so that we do not have to. In the stock market, the researchers and analysts sweat it out to make their bosses and the investors rest easy.
This brought me to this quote:
“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.” Benjamin Franklin, (American politician, inventor, and Scientist, 1706-1790)
Having been spurred on (or scared) by the events and the quotes, I fished out this 4-month-old unfinished article. It is not long but will be followed articles on the equation between mental health , physical health and emotional health and laziness.
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