Laziness Is a Social Disease

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Laziness is a social disease Do you hate work or wake up very late or postpone work for tomorrow or habitually waste your time loitering about? If your answer is “YES”, then, no doubt, you are a lazy individual. These are the signs of laziness. In short, laziness can be described as dislike for work. There was a time when man lived as a savage or a barbarian. He lived like a wild beast. His home was either a cave or a den in the forest. He ate the raw flesh of animals killed by him. He had no clothes to cover his nakedness. But he did not wish to remain in this uncivilized state. Gradually he was able to improve his living conditions by means of his intelligent thinking and hard work. If he continued without making any attempt for improvement, he would have remained in the same state of barbarism. Laziness is not the way for development or success in life. This is so for an individual, a family, a nation or a country. George Stevenson invented the steam locomotive; Marconi the radio, Wright Brothers the airplane and Columbus discovered America. We can go farther. What amount of hard work Napoleon Bonaparte, an ordinary soldier from Corsica, did to become the Emperor of France? It is through hard work and great sacrifice that all these men achieved their goal. If they had been lazy, they could not have earned a place for their names in the niche of history. Laziness is not only the enemy of progress but also the cause of many evils. It leads to thieving, dishonesty and criminality. Look around you for a moment or just take a walk in a crowded city. How many beggars come to you for charity or assistance? How many of them are able-bodied and can do a job to earn their living? Then the number of young girls sitting down on roadsides looking at people tells a different story. They too are able to work but laziness has prevented them from doing some honest
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