Laziness can negatively affect our lives by hindering our personal and professional growth, impacting our relationships, causing stress due to procrastination, leading to poor health from lack of physical activity, and potentially damaging our self-esteem by creating a sense of inadequacy and lack of accomplishment. Consistently relying on others to take on responsibilities due to laziness can create friction and resentment within relationships, including at work and with family. A lazy person can never succeed in life. To reflect the lazy traits, our sanskrit scholars hace following words to speaks.
आलस्यस्य कुतो विद्या अविद्यस्य कुतो धनम्'|
अधनस्य कुतो मित्रं अमित्रस्य कुतो सुखम्.||
Aalasyasya kuto vidyaa avidyasya kuto dhanam.
adhanasya kuto mitram amitrasya kuto sukham.
Aalasya = laziness, idleness .
Sya = a pronoun, base of 3rd person.
Aalasyasya = a lazy or idle person
Kuto = where.
Vidyaa = any kind of knowledge, learning, education.
Avidya = uneducated, foolishness.
Avidyasya = a foolish or uneducated person.
Adhana = without money.
Adhanasya = a poor person.
Mitra= friend.
Amitrasya = a person without friends.
Sukham = happiness, prosperity.
If a person is lazy then where are the chances of his being a learned persons? So also if a person is foolish and uneducated how can he be rich, and if he is poor how can he have friends, and if he has no friends how can he become happy and prosperous?
Laziness can be caused by a lack of individual effort. For example, a student who is capable of doing their work but chooses not to would fit this definition of lazy. The author highligts us to shed laziness, which is the root cause of being uneducated, poor, without any friends and happiness. We should be proactive in our approach and always try to learn new things in life which helps us to open new avenues in life. This further lead us to growth ans success in life.
