Laziness has always been taken as a negative quality. It is condemned by everybody and everywhere. People who are rolling stones from bottom to hill of the mountain and then leave it and see it falling down, think that they are doing something very important. These people are very similar to those who carry atlas on their shoulders and are overburdened. These people think that they are utilizing their time and lazy people are wasting their valuable life, but these people cannot tell you what is valuable in life or what the value of a life is. These people dig a hole in the morning and level it in the evening and think that they are achieving towards meaning or purpose of life. Lazy people –if wise enough- can laugh at the stupidity of these active, alert and working people.
In the myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus says that you must Sisyphus happy. It is really tough for me to imagine such a person happy. It may be that he is happy, but I am not going to appreciate his happiness. A wise man will prefer to have rest and leisure instead of rolling stones. If the world is absurd and life is meaningless, then why not be a little bit easy and comfortable? He will be having rest and leisure. He will not be happy but laugh at the absurdity of the world. Although, Albert Camus draws a different sketch of his absurd hero.
Everybody asks to work hard, but nobody tells why to work or work for what? Only slaves follow the command without question. Slaves should work hard. They should produce more slaves. Otherwise, who will serve their masters after them? Slaves should work hard because they are hired for work. They have to be conformist. They have to follow all societal norms, morality, and religion, etc. Otherwise, their masters lose their slaves. Slaves have to marry. They have to maintain a family. Slavery is not possible without family. Family is best in the service of the establishment. Therefore, slaves have to have wives, children, and family.
If and only if, you are a free man, not a slave, then there is nothing wrong with laziness. It is the greatest virtue of freeman, but freeman is very few. There is no point in rolling atlas on shoulders. A wise man simply on his chair and laugh at these stupid people. There is no obligation on man. He is absolutely free. Why will he work if he has food to eat and bet to sleep? A freeman is wise in being lazy. His freedom lies in his laziness.
Laziness has a philosophical backing. It is the conclusion of my all philosophical wisdom. If life has no meaning then why to do anything? Why desire anything? If there is no value in any work then why to work? There is nothing to know, nothing to do and nothing to be. What else can I do except praising laziness and being lazy?
