Sloth

Today, I was taking the bus back home after running some errands buying stuff I will need for my Thailand trip. Seated in front of me was a guy who had a earphone on, so one would logically assume he was listening to music or something like that. Logic is such a lair. Why do I say that? Well here is what happened. His handphone rang, so he reached into the bag he was carrying and took out his phone. One would again assume he would answer the phone, put the phone on his ear and say, "hello" right? Wrong again. Instead he took out his phone, attached it to the earphone adaptor and answered his phone. It turns out that he was not listening to music with the earphones he had on, instead it was his phone's handsfree kit.

Why is this significant? Well I think it is very scary when putting a phone to your ear to answer it requires too much effort. The original purpose of a handsfree kit is to enable a driver to talk on the phone even if he is driving. Little did we know that now the handsfree kit is now a device that encourages laziness. We live in a world obsessed with making our lives easier, a bit too obsessed I think, so much so that we have become lazy because of it. Stuff like the remote control, fast food home delivery, the escalator and so on have made us slothful, It is down right wrong, it is a sin in fact and with the increasing rates of obesity in the world, I am not sure that encouraging sloth is a good idea. Am I saying that we should do away with those things? No, but we should be wise about the way we use these things, they provide conveniences, they are not suppose to encourage sloth.

As the saying goes, we make the world that make us. So pehapes we are asking for it making a world like that. But I don't believe we do not have a choice, we always have a choice about the way we live our lives, so I guess my takeaway from this little encounter on the bus is to choose wisely. With that said, I am going for a run, a long one.