Tag: Lazy

Just ‘Google it’…no use your own search engine.

Posted on by philipdodson

I was sitting yesterday, writing, and a song popped into my head, and just a few lines of the lyrics and I sat thinking, shit what song is that? I knew it was Simon and Garfunkel, yes, I am that old.

My default reaction was, just ‘Google it’.

Then I said ‘don’t be lazy, think for yourself, use your brain’.

Within a moment or two, up came the answer ‘Homeward Bound’, I then ‘Googled’ the song and listened to it on YouTube while I continued to write. Happiness.

Just ‘Google it’ is making me lazy, is not good for my mind and as I am old enough to remember songs like ‘Homeward Bound’, I am old enough to remember BG, before Google, where I had no choice but to think and try and remember.

What the f… will happen to us if we can only do things by relying on technology and not our own minds? Also, where has the fun of challenge gone and all the good skills that will teach us, like patience for a start and sticking with things?

Instant gratification and everything being just a click away are killing us, slowly but surely.

I need to use my own search engine more often and not just ‘Google it’.

Lazy Sunday’s

Posted on by philipdodson

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One of the best things in life are lazy Sunday’s.

I’ve just being lying on the sofa, with two of my pets sleeping on me, the family snuggled up and we’re all watching Jurassic World. Naturally I fell asleep too, I watched it when it came out in the cinema, and apart from the standard munching of people by giant lizards with big sharp teeth, there wasn’t much else to be honest, so second time around it was, well zzzzZZZ.

We’ve really not done much today, I’ve played a bit of PS4, my son’s been playing Fifa on his xbox, my daughter has been making the house shake listening to tunes on YouTube, the wife has been watching some Swedish murder mystery on Netflix.

The thing is, we all need days like this, sure you can’t have too many of them, as then nothing would get done. But it is important to have a bit of a laze now and then.

Often though, we are made to feel guilty, as ‘they’ tell us we should be always active, doing something chasing our goals, etc, etc, etc.

Well for one day every so often goals can wait.

That’s it until tomorrow, as the duvet and the sofa are calling.