Sloth, Working Hard or Hardly Working
As Ronald Regan once said, “I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?” I think he was defining the word sloth. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as: disinclination to action or labor: indolence, or the quality or state of being lazy. It is the resistance to work and the unwillingness to act. While the antonym of sloth is drive and industrious, Reagan understood that idleness, laziness, and indolence or in my definition, sloth, should not be part of anyone’s character. Whereas, that if I do not want to, for example, finish a homework assignment, I am deemed slothful, however, that may not be true. I may just have different priorities. I may want to finish something more important in my eyes first. Even though we may not be deemed as slothful because of our …show more content…
In our modern era, being portrayed as a sloth or as slothful is now deemed as being lazy. However, it did not in earlier eras necessarily mean “laziness”. An old English word meaning, slæwð or slow, men and women have
As Ronald Regan once said, “I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?” I think he was defining the word sloth. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as: disinclination to action or labor: indolence, or the quality or state of being lazy. It is the resistance to work and the unwillingness to act. While the antonym of sloth is drive and industrious, Reagan understood that idleness, laziness, and indolence or in my definition, sloth, should not be part of anyone’s character. Whereas, that if I do not want to, for example, finish a homework assignment, I am deemed slothful, however, that may not be true. I may just have different priorities. I may want to finish something more important in my eyes first. Even though we may not be deemed as slothful because of our …show more content…
In our modern era, being portrayed as a sloth or as slothful is now deemed as being lazy. However, it did not in earlier eras necessarily mean “laziness”. An old English word meaning, slæwð or slow, men and women have