Lethargic

I just found this vocabulary when I tried to find the synonym of ‘lazy’  …

Yes, living in a big city such as Jakarta requires hard work, unending effort, and creativity as well. You struggle hard to go to work, in search for some cash to pay your living cost and to spare some more to ensure that you have enough for your future. Not to mention a long battle in the road, when you habitually drain your patience and concentration in some jams. So, when you are already home, you will attempt to bother no further for any exhausting activity, and send your housewife or your maid to provide everything that you need to pamper yourself. Not many, I assume, of them who have extra energy to perform household duties (I cannot even imagine for fathers or husbands, for they often sceptically prefer to leave them unfinished if they may), and I shall raise my two thumbs up for them (the working women, I suppose) who are keen to handle everything by themselves even if they are worn out.

Thus, some of us are not used to do everything at home by ourselves. Yes some work are tiring, but you will order your maid to make you drink, to heat up your breakfast or dinner in a microwave, to move a weightless object in front of you, to go upstairs to turn off your television or lamp, even the simplest ones, for example, to collect something that lies merely two or three steps from where you stand or sit. You will not do them by yourselves, for you persistently hold the reason that ‘the maid is there to help, no need to trouble, we already paid her’.

And then?

Many people complained about them gaining weight too fast. Then they went to gym or expensive fitness center.

Moreover, they became lethargic. Sending someone to do something that you actually could do yourself, becomes a habit. Not only at home, but in any other situation. And if they fail or do mistakes, you simply blame them. If the result is imperfect, you grumbled. Yet you proclaim that you can do better.

What’s the point then? Doing some things by yourself is vigorous, and customarily train you to be empathy. So why not make an effort from now?