A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 6
“We need work as much as we need rest; the two complement each other, one drawing power and enjoyability from the other. Rest is sweet after work, and work enjoyable after a good rest.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 6
The walk-through
Laziness rarely feels like a decision, but underneath it sits a quiet misconception: that work is unnecessary. Innocent traces it exactly there — laziness is what happens when you accede to that idea.
Drop it and the two halves of a life stop competing. Work and rest are needs of the same order, and each draws its power and its enjoyability from the other. Rest isn’t time stolen from work, and work isn’t the enemy of rest; skip either one and the other sours.
He arrives here from something larger. Life’s pressures don’t only push us into haste — they can just as easily push us toward “a state of inaction.” So laziness isn’t always the absence of pressure; sometimes it is what pressure produces when circumstances meet the wrong idea about work. Seen that way, resting well and working well are one habit approached from two sides.
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