Sluggard
“The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.”
Proverbs 19:25
This Bible verse truly describes laziness. My best advice to go against this kind of lazy mentality: Get to work! Especially on the things you care about.
Looking up the definition online I noticed that the sluggard is “a lazy, sluggish person.”* If you’re not aware, to be sluggish is to be “slow-moving or inactive.”
You’re a couch potato. You don’t have anything pushing you to do anything.
And yes, it’s not always your fault here because as social influencer Gary Vaynerchuk once said,
“You’re not lazy. You just don’t love what you do.”
But then there are times where people know what they love to do and they still don’t do it. They still remain inactive or slow-moving to get started and therefore they have no momentum to get going.
As I read up on the word sluggard a little more, I noticed the sentence that the dictionary used for sluggard: “I’m waiting for those sluggards to bring my steak.”**
This is very interesting to me because it implies that the lazy person is the one who is being waited on hand and foot. I find that quite ironic.
The waiters/cooks/servers are the ones who are actively doing something and the man (of course it’s a man because men tend to take this stance more than women) is waiting for others to get going. I’d much rather be the server in this pompous scenario because the waiters are contributing to society whereas the man in charge (likely wearing a fedora and some diamond-encrusted watch) is waiting for society to contribute to him.
I use this scenario because it reminds me of the verse from Proverbs. Once that arrogant man gets his steak, is he then going to expect to be fed just the same or will he have enough strength to feed himself? That’s the true question.
So my advice TODAY still remains: Get to work! Stop being so sluggish! Don’t expect to be waited on for every little “need” you have that arises.
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Footnotes:
*You gotta love when the dictionary uses the same word to describe the world.
**I think everyone should read the sentences used in dictionaries or online to see the word in action. These are some of the funniest moments of my life haha. I don’t know if that’s sad or not, but it is very funny and true.
