The Museum of Laziness

As we have just began a new year and are busy beginning to achieve our targets and goals, a museum has just opened in Bogota, Columbia that is dedicated to laziness.

The purpose of the museum is to help people in the Columbian capital escape the hustle of city living. The museum offers beds, sofas, hammocks and sleeping bags as its exhibits, where visitors can rest.

The curator of the museum also says that another reason behind this is to encourage people to think about their preconceptions of laziness and rest and to stress the importance of some idle time to help us to recharge our batteries.

Dr. Richard Carlson, who wrote Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff (and its all Small Stuff) once said that we have been conditioned by society to no longer be human beings but to be human doings. He states that if we spend some time on our own, we will first have an urge to do something productive, but soon later, this urge will go and we will find inner peace.

As we enter a new week, try to schedule in some idle time where you can become a human being in stead of a human doing and, hopefully, find some inner peace.