Today I was talking to my aunt about the new cell phone that she got and she was complaining because she couldn't figure out how to put the weather on the home screen or something like that with the weather. Then I started thinking about what else we have apps for on our phones that we really don't need, weather being in the top ten for sure. Yes, it's nice to know what the temperature is outside, but wouldn't be almost just as easy to stick your hand out the window? Or...(dramatic pause) go outside for a second? It made me realize how lazy our phones have made us and sparked the question: how lazy are we?
The phrase "there's an app for that" pretty much applies to almost everything now. We can do anything we want sitting on the couch because we can do it all on our phones. On the way home from work the other day, I made some calls, sent some texts, and sent and checked some emails all while I was driving! (Don't do that though, its dangerous.) There must have been a million less crashes before cell phones because they distract us so much while we drive. Getting back to laziness, I remember a time when I didn't know how to spell a word, they made us get up out of our seats and walk over to the bookshelf and look it up in the dictionary. Which to this day I still do not understand how looking up a word we didn't know how to spell helped us know how to spell the word.
Remember when there was no internet? Probably not. Do you notice how we feel completely useless when we don't have access to it? When our 3G is down or the wifi isn't working, all we focus on is getting it back as soon as possible so we can get back to doing things on our phones or the computer. We act like it's the end of the world. We act like there's nothing to do anymore. If there's no internet we don't know what to do. Mostly because everything we do now is on the internet. How long do you think you could go without the internet? I challenge you to try it for just one day. I bet you can't do it. You'll have to cheat at some point. Email, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix. I'll do it too and tell you how that day went. (Sucky probably).
Where did this laziness start? My theory is the remote control (not the clicker because remotes do not click, nor do they zap so it can't be called a zapper). They were made to make out lives easier. Think about all the seconds we saved not walking up to the TV to change the channel! But over time it became the ONLY thing that controlled the TV. If you couldn't find the remote, you couldn't watch TV. That wasn't a fact, that was just how we thought. If anyone ever takes over the world, all they'd have to do is take away our electronics and I'm sure we'd do anything at all to get them back.
People love getting letters in the mail. I know I do. Now we only have to move our thumbs to catch up with someone. How pathetic is that? Go, now, and write someone a letter. Seriously do it. If they're awesome they'll write you a letter back. If they're lame they'll send you a text that says "hey I got your letter!" Either way, you're not lazy. Technology and electronics have turned us into a completely different kind of people. Humans did just great without the stuff we had now and didn't complain about it at all. People now don't have the stuff we have and they aren'y complaining either. I say it's time to start procrastinating being lazy. If you don't understand that, it means wait to be lazy. Most people are too lazy to read a blog that addresses our own laziness. We're all guilty of it and we know it. But we've become too lazy to care about it. It's a vicious circle spiraling down a path of...destruction.
