Bashing Me(mes)

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t lazy. I’m one of the laziest people you’ll ever meet – if you meet me, because I usually don’t venture too far from my den. Catch me 24/7 hibernating; speaking of catching, it’s not that hard to do since I don’t run. I don’t know how. But hey, I can beat you at walking away from strenuous activity anytime, any day.

So my issue here, the main reason for this post, isn’t to dismiss laziness or tell you that there’s something inherently wrong with you because you don’t…do stuff. It’s completely okay to not do stuff, for a while. The problem I have is with rampant meme culture telling me it’s completely okay to be as lazy as I am.

I scroll all my timelines and find memes saying things like “All I do is eat,” “3 things I do: eat, sleep, scroll” and so on. At first glance, this doesn’t seem too damaging until you realize that people making the memes are actually not lazy at all. It takes a lot of time, strategizing and planning to run a successful meme page, for one. A lot of the posts are sponsored, bought, paid for, etc.: that takes effort. People feeding content that says it’s okay to take X number of days off don’t actually…take any days off.

You feel me?

I’m not here spouting a conspiracy theory – all I’m saying is that it’s okay to be lazy, sometimes (mostly telling myself). What is not okay is believing that we have all the time in the world so 4 naps a day are completely justified. There’s no future time to accomplish things and get goals done – it’s basically right now. Right now is all we have, so don’t nap.

I want to learn graphic design, publish a few books, join an editing agency, become successful at a bunch of things, but I keep putting things off because I believe in the memes. I believe that there’s always tomorrow, I feel safe knowing that 800K other meme see the same content, feel the same way, that the 7000 people who comment on the meme are also master procrastinators. It’s not true.

So like, get a jump-start on your dreams, we can sleep when we’re dead (not like there’s much of a choice then).