{"id":539,"date":"2014-10-18T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mylessonslearned.co\/?p=539"},"modified":"2014-10-11T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T14:44:20","slug":"busy-vs-lazy-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylessonslearned.co\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Busy vs lazy (freedom?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am lazy. My parents would point this out to me when I was growing up.\u00a0\u00a0What that really meant I was doing what I wanted to do, not what they wanted me to be doing. In my head, I would be thinking &#8220;Can&#8217;t I just be left alone?&#8221;\u00a0 I like lazy. I like not having things to do, places to go, people to see. I love empty spots of time, where I can choose what I want to do because I want to do it.\u00a0 Because being lazy to me, means being able to be a kid again: to not have people scheduling meetings on my calendar (curses to Outlook), asking to do something, see something, say something.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I just want to be on my own. Like when you&#8217;re a kid, waking up on a Saturday with the whole day ahead of you. Or when you go to college, and realize you can do whatever you want on the weekend, other than study. Or when you&#8217;re on a plane, and people can&#8217;t reach you so it&#8217;s ok to watch 5 movies in a row. Or when a meeting is cancelled, and you realize you just got time back.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, the opposite of being busy is being lazy. 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