Laziness and Comfort; Sanity and God.

“Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?”

Honestly, I feel that humans live for laziness. They work to get money and power and control...why? So they can have a "comfortable" life. A life filled with a shelter, a surplus of food and comfort. They work hard in order to live this comfortable life.

What is comfortable, really? When I think comfortable, I think of a long, luxurious red couch with grapes sitting in a golden bowl on a glass table. But this is not comfort in the sense I want it to mean. Comfort as a lifestyle cannot be defined simply as a red couch. It is a state of being. It is anxiety-free, loving and happy. He has a family; be it a wife and children, or close friends, or his biological relatives. He has care and people to care for him. He has few worries. Money is no option. He loves his job and his in-laws. This man lives comfortably. He has worked his whole life to live the way he does now- care free and lazy. Today, he works on his jobs and relationships and education so that one day he can one day be just like the "carefree" man he desires to be.


"Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."

I don't think sanity can be defined as "madness put to good use". To me, sanity is clear thought and articulated processes. Madness is chaos and confusion. The only way I think they relate is to say some sort of sanity can come from madness; likewise, madness can result from sanity. I believe order can lead to mental anarchy, just like disorder can lead to comprehension.

I also disagree with the second part of the quote. "Waking life is a dream controlled." My favorite part about my dreams is that I am in control of them. Whether I can realize it in the moment or not, I dream what I want to dream. So that might be a nightmare one night and a fantasy adventure the next... it is really my choice. My "Waking life", or my real life, is not controlled by me. I make the decisions where I want to go and who I want to see, but everything else is controlled by some external force. I call that force God but you may call it something else. Whatever the case is, dreams are controlled by me, but life is controlled by something greater.