The hypocrisy of hard work
Some meandering thoughts on idleness, hard work, the hypocrisy of wealth, etc.
Society often gives us the impression that idleness is an aberration in need of medical intervention. The way most people talk about depression and life-weariness would fool you into thinking that the default psychological baseline for humanity is high-energy and motivation.
It's no mystery why idleness is tempting. It's work, not idleness, which requires impetus and motivation. Idleness is the default; work is the additional input.
Our material existence does not prefer additional work; it wants the most fluent and effortless course. This is a feature of existence itself, evident for example in how gravity pursues the most straight-forward route, or how a river takes the route of least resistance, and so on.