"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Monday, June 7, 2010

Indolent

~A total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
~Mignon McLaughlin

I am lazy. There, I said it. Sometimes it's nice to just be lazy... but there are no breaks from being lazy-if that makes sense. You can't relax from relaxing. It's like when you're on a hike and you stop for a break. You're half way up a mountain and you sit down, take a drink, and eat a snack. The next step is to get back to work hiking the mountain. You're stuck in the middle of the trail, it's not like there is another way out.

I have a flashcard with "indolent" written on it posted on my bulletin board.

On the back of this card is the definition: lazy, idle

This was a vocabulary word in my Honors English class Junior year... two and a half years ago. I don't know how it ended up on my board. In the fall I was dedicated and made tons of flashcards-went through them all the time. The stack was ginormous. I'm guessing I threw the rest of them away, but that one is still posted on my wall.

I could take it to be something of a motivation to NOT be indolent... but I've just become used to it :) Really though, it's become one of only 10 or 20 vocabulary words I remember from that class. It was kind of a joke with my friend for a while. I can see the irony in it. We studied sometimes, but the word we remembered meant "lazy."

So, I may be lazy, but I'm aware of it :) Haha, I actually started stretching today so I can start working out-as much as I hate working out :/ And, I'm trying to blog everyday and keep up on things. I just had to take a break to be lazy after the semester ended and I finally had a break from school after almost three years... I just didn't think it would take a month :P

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  1. ShalynnJune 7, 2010 at 10:22 PM

    I hear ya Bergan! I'm sure it'll take me at least a month before I want to do anything after I graduate! You deserve a break! Enjoy it! Love you! Thanks for blogging!

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