Lazy is as lazy does… and perhaps my 'lazy does' is the equivalent of frenetic activity for some people. No matter. My frenetic activity is sloth by someone else's standards, I'm sure.
I guess that my definition of a lazy day is different than that of most people. No wonder. The way we define lack of activity depends entirely on what we have come to consider normal activity.
I've never been the kind that floops and vegetates in one place all day. I don't have attention issues, but I do tend to get fidgety if I'm forced to keep at something for a long time. (That's why I thrived with the shorter periods and brief breaks of Greek schools; an unbroken 2-hour session of anything would drive me crazy.) So just settling in a sunlounger from morning till evening is out of the question. I'm still amazed at the number of people who consider a day spent slow-roasting on the beach or doing nothing in the balcony a day well spent.
A lazy day, in my book, is a day when I can have uninterrupted time to myself instead of working for others. A toddler has me on duty all the time – take that away, and suddenly the height of idleness is attainable. Getting all the others out of the house and having the place all to myself… ditching housework, keeping the TV off, reading and writing as I see fit, popping out to the supermarket cafe around the corner to avoid as much as cooking anything, a long, unhurried yoga session followed by an equally long and unhurried hot shower and an early night – that's a lazy day for me, one that would have my poor depleted batteries overflowing with fresh charge.
Since such a setting ranges from improbable to impossible, though, I could make do with dedicating the young one's school hours to my own unwinding. It's only about two hours, three times a week, but it's much better than nothing (my SAD, which would normally be running rampant by now, has still to arrive, and it's all the doing of the school run, which gets me out in the daylight), and it's only going to increase as he moves from preschool to full time primary.
It doesn't have to be a day of doing nothing. It can very well be a day of doing different things. Things we're not expected to do every day. It's not work if you don't have to do it.
