Slackology

The Oxford English dictionary defines a slacker as "a shirker, an indolent person." We feel that this is too antiquated and one-dimensional a view. To us slacking is far more complicated than just pure indolence. We prefer the Ancient Greek way of looking at it. They believed that a person's prudence, morality, and wisdom was directly proportional to the amount of leisure time that person had.

To paraphrase an entry on Rox Vocab, Slacking isn't something you do, it's more a state of being. It's something you are or aren't. Slacking is universal, not exclusive. The slacker life is open to all who wish to live it; however, it's not for everyone.

Here are some quotes, some that help define our view of slacking, some that just amuse us (you decide which):

“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?”
Charles M Schulz

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.”
Mary Little

“It’s good to do nothing, and then to rest”
Spanish proverb

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.”
Lily Tomlin

“Being busy is the best excuse for not working.”
Kenneth Tynan

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
Douglas Adams

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”
Jerome K Jerome

“Punctuality is a virtue of the bored.”
Evelyn Waugh

“The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.”
Max Kauffmann

“Every man is, or wishes to be, an Idler.”
Samuel Johnson

“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.”
C.S Lewis

“Such a beautiful day, that one felt quite confused how to make the most of it, and accordingly frittered it away.”
Caroline Fox, diarist, 1848