On Convenience

How much of what we do is decided by how convenient it is to do at the moment you think of doing it? For example, I would probably go to the bathroom right now if I didn't have to stand up, walk to the bathroom, and pull down my pants in order to go pee. Instead, I am continuing to write about what is convenient, because it is more convenient to sit and write than get up and relive my bladder.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that everybody is lazy. The extent to which people are lazy is different, but I doubt that there is a single person who wouldn't be in some variation of the same conundrum as I am right now. I don't have to pee that badly, and in order to pee (in a toilet), I'd have to walk well over a hundred feet, simply to get to the bathroom. The case can be extended to other situations where peeing is not a high priority, but still a need/desire. 

For example, imagine you are in a movie theater, watching a new, thrilling, engaging movie. It seems like it's going to end soon, and you need to pee relatively badly, but not to the extent where you're going to pee in your pants. What do you do? If the movie is interesting enough, you wait it out and pee on the way out, when it's convenient. You're not disturbing the movie, the bathroom is more or less on the way out of the theater, etc. These examples are relevant only to establish that everybody is lazy and does things that are convenient.

What are things that we do only when they are convenient? As I've already mentioned, peeing (as well as pooping and other bathroom activities) are things of that nature. Another thing is eating. People eat meals at the 'proper' time because it's convenient. Yes, most people get hungry around mealtimes, but people without food also get hungry in the middle of the desert at mealtimes, but they don't eat then. Why not? It's not convenient to eat if you don't have access to food.

Communication is something people only participate in if it's convenient. If you were camping out on a mountain peak and your friend was on a nearby mountain peak, but the only way for you to communicate with him (or her) was to build a big fire and send smoke signals, my guess is that you wouldn't talk to him (or her) all that much. Conversely, if you're sitting in the same room as your friend, you'll probably have a conversation with them, simply because it's so convenient (and you like the person). 

So what is convenience? First, it is a noun. It has eleven letters; five of them are vowels, while the other six are consonants. It is closely related to 'convenient,' which is the adjective form. Other related words are 'conveniently' and 'convene' (not really, but whatever). It means that you don't have to go too far out of your way to do whatever it is that happens to be convenient. It's easy. Not a problem. Can do. All that kind of stuff. 

Where am I going with this? I don't really know. I'm guessing that you didn't just actually go looking for this blog, since that would not be the most convenient way for somebody to find it. I think it's more likely that you found a conveniently located link from another webpage to this one. You bum. You're hella lazy.