Laziness can lead to low self-esteem and depression.

Laziness, idleness, laziness... we analyze the effects of this cardinal sin.

What a great struggle many of us have to face against laziness. laziness. That desire to put off until tomorrow (or the day after) what we have to do today (a phenomenon known as procrastination). Y I confess how envious I am of those who are capable of not giving up, of staying the steady course towards their objective..

I have just assumed that I am dominated by at least two deadly sins, but in reality almost no one escapes. At all ages and at all times of our lives there is laziness, crouching and lurking, ready to dominate us.

Laziness, laziness, laziness, idleness... many synonyms for the same state of mind.

It doesn't matter if what occupies us is writing, working, dieting, quitting smoking, studying for an exam or going to the gym, it doesn't matter, laziness will hang on our backs at any moment to try to make us abandon our "chores".. 

Its objective is none other than to push us at all times towards pleasure; an immediate pleasure that evades us from duty, that saves us temporarily from what we do not feel like doing. It is about the binomial inaction versus movement, entropy versus expansion.

Why we must free ourselves from laziness

Overcoming laziness produces internal satisfaction, raises self-esteem, while letting it drag us down and can end up depressing us. How does this happen? Now you will understand.

Let's say my goal is to lose weight. In this situation laziness will appear as a constant invitation to treat myself to a moment of pleasurefor example by opening a packet of potato chips to temporarily escape from the suffering that dietary discipline forces me to endure.

Once the moment of enjoyment has passed, once the first potatoes have passed beyond the palate, the little voice (or the loud voice) of my Inner Fatherthe one that scolds us inside making us feel guilty, will turn his fury against me by way of punishment: "You are incapable of maintaining a minimum of discipline! You will never lose weight! No one will love you like that! You'll be a seal all your life!", etc.

The litany of such insults that we are capable of saying internally should be punishable by law. should be punishable by law.

Abandoning ourselves to immediate pleasure lowers our self-esteem.

The abandonment of duty for immediate pleasure automatically brings with it internal reproach. We become critical of ourselves, cruel and merciless on many occasions, to the point of hating ourselves. And as if that were not enough we activate the comparison with others, to whom from the psychological bias that supposes not being in the head of the other oneWe judge ourselves as better than we are, as more capable.

In this way, the negative effect of laziness and the consequent self-reproach is none other than to affect our self-esteem: the level of valuation and love we feel towards our own person. Laziness makes me love myself less, it lowers my self-esteem..

And the less I confront it, the more power it has over me. It is like a snowball rolling down a hill, its force getting stronger and stronger as it goes. In this case the ball is made up of laziness, self-reproach and low self-esteem, which, as they gain strength within us, become more and more powerful. as they gain strength within us, they depress our state of mind..

A reflection to face laziness and overcome it

At the end of the day, it's all a matter of attitudeThat is why there are those who are determined to face it with tenacity and those (I include myself in this group) who sometimes win and sometimes lose. And in this matter of life there is no other recipe than to fight.

Overcoming laziness, doing what we know we have to do raises our self-esteem, cheers our spirits and keeps us away from depression. To do this we just have to change the chip and take on the suffering that comes with going for our goal by giving it a couple of noses.. I insist, it is only a matter of attitude and habit. Choosing to avoid or to confront. Perhaps now that you know that the matter also involves your self-esteem and your psychic health, you will think better before letting yourself be dragged towards immediate pleasure.