Are Impatience and Laziness Cardinal Sins?
What do you think?
There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and laziness.
Franz Kafka
Do you agree?
In my mind, it isn’t that bad. Laziness is a quality by which the brain prevents a lot of energy which can otherwise be wasted in doing the unimportant tasks. Impatience, on the other hand, is a state in which the brain doesn’t want to wait for the actions and results. Therefore, the two can’t be related directly. However, one may say that laziness would consume the time which otherwise might have been used to do some productive work.
What do you think? Do you think that impatience and laziness are sins? Or do you see the good intent?
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