The Joys of Retirement EIGHT - Being Lazy

Published: June 7, 2008, 10:50 am

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Joy of Retirement EIGHT - the joy of Being Lazy is in actuality the joy of guilt-free enjoyment of leisure time. But I know I am not there yet. Most of my life I associated leisure time with ”idle hands” being the “devil’s workshop,” which is another of those concepts instilled in us by our early upbringing in the “church of hard work.” “We were put on this Earth to work.” If you come from a Norwegian ancestry, you have undoubtedly heard this many times. As for the German ancestry…being organized with every minute of every day properly scheduled seems to be a matter of necessity for good grace. Well, I am 50/50, Norwegian and German, and there’s never been a lazy moment in my life. How drull. Wait, that’s not even a word. Drab and dull. “All work makes Jack a dull boy.” I don’t think I ever heard that one as a kid. As an adult, I appraised my co-workers

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