monkey nonsense

it’s come to my attention that a lot of people have this perception of me… that i am a slacker. not that i disagree with that (i think i list my expertise/profession in some online places as slacker, bum, etc. etc.) but it got me wondering. besides just saying i’m a slacker/bum, do people perceive other things i do (or perhaps, don’t do ) as proof that i’m a slacker? why do some people give off the impression that they are always busy and always working hard, while others appear to be goofing off all the time?

one argument against the “always busy, always working”… maaaaaaybe you’re always busy and always working because you slack off too often! thus, creating a backlog of work that needs to be done and the impression that you are hard working! maaaaybe the people who appear to be goofing off actually are the people who’ve already worked hard and have already finished all their work so really they’re not goofing off, they’re celebrating!

or perhaps the opposite is true… the people who appear to be goofing off are actually pre-celebrating the completion of their work (in other words, procrastinating)! and you’ve just caught them in the middle of their pre-celebration. and right after you look away, that’s when they’re hunkering down to do work. procrastination doesn’t count as slacking off because you eventually get the work done and 9 times out of 10, end up having to work harder than if you had planned it out properly.

i think a lot of people have heard stories of my sleeping from freshmen year of college (thanks psycho for spreading those lies!!) and so they think all i do is sleep! since when does sleep = slacking off!? sleeping requires a lot of effort, concentration, and energy! and in order to get all your work done while still maintaining 15 hours of sleep requires a lot of work too! (so maybe i didn’t get all my work done, but if i HAD…) i used to hate living next door to bingbin banana because she would always be in bed by midnight, with all her homework and studying done!!! she definitely wasn’t a slacker!

finally, just because you don’t enjoy what you do and aren’t as passionate about it as others, doesn’t make you a slacker. i think the fact i hated CS and wasn’t passionate about it may have contributed to the perception that i did diddly squat (combined with the fact that i did, in fact, do diddly squat) BUT i think being indifferent towards something doesn’t automatically mean you’re slacking off (tho certainly, who would blame you if you wanted to slack off?).

what makes someone a slacker?

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