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- = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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- Apathy and Laziness
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- Who cares? That's what I really want to know. I'm sure most
- people would LIKE to care, but must people are too lazy to bother. I'm a
- perfect example. I read through the various F.U.C.K. files thinking "Man,
- that's right...I'm just like that...or I should start doing that...or
- someone needs to put a stop to that." But do I do anything about it? Nope...
- I'm too fucking lazy to get off my ass and make even a simple change. Or
- is it that I don't care enough to bother?
- Apathy is bad. Laziness is bad. The two in combination are
- destructive.
- If you're lazy, you can always muster enough energy to
- accomplish whatever it is you need to do. If you don't care, you can still
- do whatever it is that needs done, just with no enjoyment or pride in it
- whatsoever. But if you're lazy AND you don't care, then what could possibly
- inspire you to do anything? And what happens when you become so lazy and
- apathetic that you stop bothering to do things you DO care about? The only
- force more powerful than apathy and laziness is anger. Unfortunately apathy
- and laziness are an awesome tag-team and it takes a whole lot of anger to
- overcome them.
- For example, I'm watching the Olympics right now. Michael
- Johnson just won his first gold medal 2 minutes ago and set a new Olympic
- record in the process. That's pretty kewl, but isn't of particular interest
- to me since I'm not much of a Track and Field fan. But just last week, the
- sport I DO take interest in, Women's Gymnastics, was on.
- Kerry Strug, one of the underdogs on the US team stuck a perfect
- vault towards the end of the team competition. Her score was just enough to
- push the United States into the first place spot, stealing the victory
- from a Russian team that thought the gold was in their hands. She landed
- this event winning vault and stuck her landing with a crowd winning smile.
- And not until the judges had gotten their impressions and tabulated their
- scores did she let it be known that she had severely sprained her ankle
- during her landing.
- This occured during my favorite Olympic event by one of my favorite
- gymnasts and will go down in Olympic history. And where was I at the
- time? Sitting on my best friends couch bitching and whining for a ride
- home because I was too lazy to walk 5 fucking blocks. I can just imagine
- the goosebumps I would have had if I had witnessed this event when it
- happened. I'll have to imagine them, because I'll never have another
- chance to experience them.
- As I mentioned earlier, in large amounts anger can defeat apathy
- and laziness. And there was plenty of anger accumulated after I found out
- what I had missed. I think it actually did me some good. I'm still
- apathetic. I'm still lazy. But now whenever I need to do something and
- start putting it off, I think back to the little piece of history I
- missed and the anger wells up inside again and I find the will to do
- whatever it is that needs to be done.
- What's the moral of this story? There really isn't one. I don't
- expect any victim's of tag-team apathy and laziness to actually do anything
- because they read this. If they did, that would completely invalidate
- everything I just wrote. I don't know what the point of this file is, or
- why I bothered to write it. And actually, I don't really care.
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- -InVerse
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