Language: Laziness Vs Unmotivated [2094]
I think our society has a miscommunication of language or rather a lack of understanding of emotional capacity. We easily become so wrapped up in terminology or the ideologies of right and wrong that we easily lose focus of what’s actually important; which is the growth, maintenance, and preservation of self.
The reality is that most people don’t know themselves. The blame can be easily placed on the individual, since it’s their job to know who they are. For example, it’s no one in particulars job to know who Jo is, besides Jo. Yet we set these unrealistic expectations and realoties based off of external opinions and perceptions. Yet society easily places a plethora of pronouns and adjectives that are oftentimes unflattering.
The word lazy can be easily thrown at you when another persons reality doesn’t match your own; when you’re ball stops rolling despite having all the momentum in the world, when you decide to rest rather than keep fighting. It’s easy to get roped into the idea of more, now, faster; but what do we do for the people who need less, later, slowly? When the haste of simply being is overwhelming. The casual ferocity of surviving in todays society makes it difficult to settle into living, to accept that you are alive.
The lack of empathy for others makes it difficult to authentically connect with ourself and others when attempting to understand ourselves through others. Simply gauging how our reality fits into the narrative of a story that isn’t ours. Because that’s personal.
I challenge these critiques with the counter argument of what about them? What about that persons reality and what they are going through? Would that person consider themselves lazy and what’s stopping them? Now ask how you would feel if you were that person. It’s easy to say someone isn’t on the path that we projected for them or doing the task, goals, and accomplishments that we expect of them.
I’d like to say; don’t get me wrong, people can still be lazy; BUT I think there’s a lack of understanding for other. I think easily we forget that despite living in the same world, our realities are not the same. A simple mundane task for one can be a 3 part list that involves 4 breaks. You can have every intention in the world to complete a task or achieve a goal yet if you’re not mentally, emotionally, or spiritually there, then more often then not those task or dreams are nothing but a thought.
I think judgment plays a role in this, truthfully. But it’s languages, semantics. The laziness of one is the lack of motivation for other. People can have the grandest plans but without the basics of support, motivation, inspiration, energy, resource, etc. a simple task or extraordinary dream can we morphed into nothingness.
I say all of this to say be kinder, try not to judge because the 24 hours you have are not the same as the next persons. And be kinder to yourself because when your able be gentle with yourself you can be gentle with others.
Peace
Jo
Enjoy this small writing 🖤
I oftentimes overthink the nuisances of myself and in doing so I become so stagnant with ideas and guilt and ideas of guilt over trivial things that no one should feel guilty over. I forgot to be human; how to function, how to keep going. So I’m holding myself accountable. So here, here is my heart in words I’m too afraid to say. Written in themes that I cannot comprehend in any other way but through my writings.
