Good Laziness vs. Bad Laziness

So I was talking to this girl in the dining hall. We both had a shared mutual disdain for society. We both got on to the topic of laziness. Both of us professed being lazy and guilty as charged, yet as we discussed laziness, we discovered there is good laziness and then there is bad laziness.

Yeah all laziness is bad in some way or form.

But in a way laziness can help.

Two types of laziness:

Good: while bad in another way, its good in the sense that it helps kick a habit (albeit temporarily usually) that is often causing problems in your day to day life.

Bad: is your typical laziness...you don't want to put in the time or effort for anything.

This girl talked about how when her boyfriend doesn't have a car (he has bad luck with cars), he is too lazy to walk over to Walgreens to get a pack of cigarettes, so in the period he doesn't have a car on him, he quits smoking.

Another example is that one is less likely to overspend or waste money when they are too lazy to go places without a car.

That is how being lazy can benefit people. Of course it affects them negatively in other ways but thats not the issue at front at the moment.

But the bad laziness is that when you do have a car on you, you find yourself driving down the street to the store, something that may not even be more than a 5 or so minute walk.

I remember when my mom used to own a car, we would drive to Walgreens in my neighborhood, which is only about 3 or 4 buildings down from us (it used to be a block from us but they rebuilt it because they wanted to make it bigger and they had to move it).

It was like a 10 second drive, one would probably spend more time waiting to make the turn onto the street than they would actually driving to it.

But now that my mom no longer owns a car, its like a 3 to 5min walk (my mom is sick so it also takes her a little longer than most to make the walk).

We talked about how technology being the death of us just like cars have.

I mean just look at drive thrus at fast food joints, there is a like a long line and people get angry that you aren't going fast enough....they get mad that their gas is being wasted when it was themselves who choose to drive into a busy line. Meanwhile those who actually get off their asses and walk in, are forced to come second to those who decide to be lazy about how they want to get their food.