Good focus
I found that trying to see the monitor thru the bifocal area of my glasses was a pain in the neck, literally. I tried reading glasses and still use 2.00-strength cheap glasses at times. But the optical department of our local Wal-Mart introduced me to PC Peekers.
They have been the best thing I have found. Amazon.com sells them for $17.88 a pair, plastic lenses that slip temporarily behind your regular glasses. That is about the price at Wal-Mart, too. The twists on the ends make insertion and removal easy. The twists also keep the viewing area from direct contact with anything the Peekers are set down on, preventing scratching. I use mine quite often and suffer less in the transition to them and away from them than using reading glasses.
Laziness vs. Thoughtful Concentration
I try to avoid using the word or the concept of “lazy”. I take it to mean a basic propensity to not do work, or not do anything, or not do what is assigned, or not do “what I should.” By high school, often before that, in middle school or junior high, students are old enough to know what they want to do. Usually, they do not desire to do what is assigned, what is required or what adults consider good for them.
Often, the question arises, How can I get X to do what I want X to do? Teachers and parents have this question about young people. Politicians and managers have this question. Physicians ask this about patients and wives about husbands. Mark Twain had several things to say about this subject.
I guess it is true that at some ages, what is desired is just to not do what is asked but for many people, especially male people, poetry, pigs or pitching has an attraction and other things don’t. An activity or goal has an attraction and that is what is desired. Other things aren’t desired and may be resisted.
Several years ago, the Gallup Organization and some of its workers published books on a general problem in all organizations, worldwide. The basic problem is that people are put into prearranged slots, such as the job that was recently vacated or the slot of doing what the organization needs. Such a step seems natural, often inevitable. However, Gallup found that if more effort is put into finding a person’s strengths, that person is far happier and often more productive and more valuable to others.
Artists painting those silly pictures and sculptors tapping away at those big blocks of marble have often been asked by their mothers and husbands if they couldn’t stop the foolishness and cook or clear or visit the sick. Germaine Greer wrote The Obstacle Race about the desire of women painters to follow their interests and needs to paint but often falling in love and working for their emerging family instead. I realize husbands and children and grandchildren are very glad for Mom’s attentions and often women come to value the needs and futures of those parties more than their own arts and plans.
Sometimes, though, it is best if X does what X wants, even for quite a long time.
