Couching the Concept of "Laziness"

I like to think about a lot of things. I think a large number of people are the same, and though I often feel as if no one thinks at all, this is only my perspective.

So, I was thinking the other day about the concept of laziness. I started thinking about what can be perceived as laziness could be a misinterpretation of an individual’s formula for existence. A formula for existence is part of the complex structure that one uses (either willingly or not) to construct his or her worldview. Understand what I’m getting at here? In other words, perception is based upon one’s worldview, so laziness, much like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

But, then I read the penultimate sentence and stopped for a second. I thought, “is it grammatically correct to have the words can and could arranged such a way?” Then I start thinking, “what do these words have to do with grammar at all?” I start to think that maybe it would be better if I wrote instead “what might be perceived as laziness might also be a misinterpretation of an individual’s formula for existence.” I come to the conclusion that my concerns probably lie in the alliterative quality of the words can and could rather than their arrangement. So my concern is more an aesthetic one than it is a grammatical one. But wait, isn’t grammar itself an aesthetic? Yep, I mean, I think it is. An aesthetic is, after all, a set of principles. Then again, I don’t really know right now; I’m too lazy to think too hard on it at the moment, and I know that I’m not thinking about grammar while writing this; it’s reflectively  linear more than meticulously and surgically precise. Besides, I’m in the middle of something; I’m philosophizing. Wait, the words can and could have to do with tense and temporality, and who gives a crap about grammar right now except prescriptive grammar snobs, anyway? Or is it descriptive? Who cares? AHHH. I AM EASILY DISTRACTED.

Nevertheless, laziness is a perception. In other words, “laziness” is a judgment; it is a juxtaposition of life-formulas, a comparison of one’s preconceived notions of mental and physical action and inaction over another’s[1], but it is still a judgment, and we should never forget that it is a judgment based upon the “judge’s” very own standard of measurement, that is, his or her perspective.

Example: what one person might perceive as me lying on my couch, staring at a muted-television, eating a handful of grapes, crackers, and cheese, crumbs scattered around my general area, half-watching Sportscenter, half-contemplating what it means to exist, that is “working out the formula,” another person might perceive as me being, well, lazy. What a person might perceive as me just spending a lot of time on my couch over the years thinking (hundreds of hours perhaps) another person might perceive as sheer and utter laziness. That’s just a perspective. I’m not being lazy. But, then again, maybe I am. 

I’m a philosopher, I’m just being.

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[1] And, when I write “preconceived” I mean “existed before as a quality established by the culture in which a person was raised.”