The Habit of Laziness

     I remember when I used to be a kid, I'd keep running around everywhere without taking a break or some rest. All the adults would be napping in the afternoon and would poke around them, room by room, wondering what makes them sleep in the day. I would stuubornly not sleep in the day, saying "it's not bedtime, yet".

     Somewhere in time, things changed. Now, I'm lazy. A couch potato. Sleeping during my travels, my classes, whenever I find time, be it morning, noon or dusk. I have started loving idleness - sitting for hours doing nothing, relaxing all the while, watching movies and loving entertainment.

     It is something, a culture that cultivated in me when I was around 14 years, I believe. I recollect I used to hate the fact that I wasting so much of my time, but it was addicting and I got comfortable with it over the years. And so, laziness, as an habit got rooted in me.

     Any habit, as good as it is accultured, can be changed with practice, no matter how slow it is. It has formed over years and it will need years to change, but the initiative has to be taken. We are no longer an agile kid, but we can be a bustling adult.

- R V Shantharam