The Cheap and Lazy Motivational Theory of Aruna
One of my latest realizations about myself was the fact that most of my decisions are strongly influenced by 2 things: the fact that I am cheap and the fact that I am lazy.
Sometimes these factors work in combination to influence a decision (i.e. I am too cheap AND too lazy to do that) or sometimes they work against one another (i.e. God, I am SO cheap and it hurts me to pay this much, but I am too damn LAZY to do anything else). As well, at times there are decisions which are influenced by one but not the other.
Specific examples in the Czech Republic:
-The fact I have a tram pass in Ostrava-
I work less than 10 minutes walk from my house and I rarely ever go anywhere that's more than a 10 minute walk from my house. But I still have a monthly tram pass which costs 200kc (about $10CAD). Why do I have a tram pass? Because I am so lazy that I take the tram to work so that I can have an extra 10 minutes of sleep. Also, I am much too lazy to poke around in my wallet for the 8kc needed for a ticket whenever I decide to take the tram.
-I don't buy much junk food in the Czech Republic-
I am usually too cheap to buy lots of chips and other crap when I have to pay for it myself. Also, if I were to get really fat I would probably still be too lazy to exercise.
-I have learned to cook a lot of things with boiling water-
Like instant soup. Yum! Sometimes I'm too lazy to go shopping and buy something better (even though the supermarket is directly on my way home from work), too lazy to wash the many dishes that more complicated meals would create, and too cheap to do something like order in. Plus ordering in would involve using my cell phone and spending credit. And speaking in Czech...which is just not possible for me.
There are probably (definitely) WAY too many more life examples for me to list. I won't go there.
As for what's happening lately...Wednesday we went to karaoke (not the same without Erick and Bina!), and yesterday we had a Mexican dinner at our house where we ate all the canned Mexican food that Erick left behind. Then we sat around feeling sick because we all totally over-ate. Hot.
Sometimes these factors work in combination to influence a decision (i.e. I am too cheap AND too lazy to do that) or sometimes they work against one another (i.e. God, I am SO cheap and it hurts me to pay this much, but I am too damn LAZY to do anything else). As well, at times there are decisions which are influenced by one but not the other.
Specific examples in the Czech Republic:
-The fact I have a tram pass in Ostrava-
I work less than 10 minutes walk from my house and I rarely ever go anywhere that's more than a 10 minute walk from my house. But I still have a monthly tram pass which costs 200kc (about $10CAD). Why do I have a tram pass? Because I am so lazy that I take the tram to work so that I can have an extra 10 minutes of sleep. Also, I am much too lazy to poke around in my wallet for the 8kc needed for a ticket whenever I decide to take the tram.
-I don't buy much junk food in the Czech Republic-
I am usually too cheap to buy lots of chips and other crap when I have to pay for it myself. Also, if I were to get really fat I would probably still be too lazy to exercise.
-I have learned to cook a lot of things with boiling water-
Like instant soup. Yum! Sometimes I'm too lazy to go shopping and buy something better (even though the supermarket is directly on my way home from work), too lazy to wash the many dishes that more complicated meals would create, and too cheap to do something like order in. Plus ordering in would involve using my cell phone and spending credit. And speaking in Czech...which is just not possible for me.
There are probably (definitely) WAY too many more life examples for me to list. I won't go there.
As for what's happening lately...Wednesday we went to karaoke (not the same without Erick and Bina!), and yesterday we had a Mexican dinner at our house where we ate all the canned Mexican food that Erick left behind. Then we sat around feeling sick because we all totally over-ate. Hot.
posted by Aruna at 11:54 AM
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