In the eyes of Christopher Morley, laziness isn’t necessarily horrible. In some ways, it can be dignified and necessary. Laziness isn’t always something that comes naturally. Overtime, you can develop this feeling of laziness that is usually psychological or “philosophical.” In this essay, Morley touches upon this topic and opens our minds to this question: What exactly is laziness? Morley begins to develop this idea by first setting a sort of humorous, if not sarcastic, tone. He uses this to achieve his purpose in making people question their views of laziness. He first gives what seems to be sarcastic statements, saying that he meant to write a persuasive and well developed argument on laziness, but became too “indolent” [lazy] to do so. By …show more content…
He then provides excellent yet vague examples of how society perceives laziness. We all say that laziness is a bad thing and shouldn’t be tolerated, but we also encourage it. Students get in trouble for being “too hyperactive” and those that sit and do nothing are praised. I guess you could say that makes us hypocritical. He then provides an example of an actual person, although he doesn’t say his name, who became lazy through others. The man is always providing help for people, but people never seem to help him so he became “lazy” and stopped helping others. After all, when you are just doing the same things over and over again, things can get pretty boring. His descriptive word choice, allows us to effectively imagine the situations playing out, as well as allowing us to connect it to