From July 2020 to the end of July 2021, for one year straight, I drove six days a week across all of Incheon, delivering Park Chan’s early morning deliveries without missing a single day. This routine became so ingrained that now, around 4 a.m., my eyes open automatically. While there’s a common belief that you need over 8 hours of sleep daily to be healthy, my experience shows that absolute time isn’t crucial. What matters more is the time your brain gets deep sleep and maintaining a regular sleep routine. Following the methods of the sleep scientist from the book ‘It’s Okay to Sleep Less,’ I believe you can maintain a healthy life even with just 4-5 hours of sleep per day. Moreover, after waking at dawn to meditate on Scripture, do cryptocurrency training, catch up on news, manage my side dish shop, reply to company emails, and organize my daily schedule, the joy of sipping morning coffee while greeting the sunrise or personally preparing breakfast for my family is a great reward.

I heard a pastor’s explanation about laziness on a YouTube channel, which became an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of laziness. Even someone who lies in bed watching TV all day will quickly replace the remote’s batteries when they die. Similarly, someone addicted to gambling or games is actually putting their life on the line and working hard at it. Yet, we call such people lazy. His words made me reflect on myself: if we become lazy in the worship we owe to God, the direction of our lives goes awry. No matter how diligently we flip through TV channels or try to improve our gambling odds, that becomes a lazy life. I felt a pang of guilt, wondering if I wasn’t just using the excuse of “cryptocurrency training” to gamble, while subscribing to countless YouTube channels to accumulate worldly knowledge and watching economic, political, and social news all day long. I reflect that I might actually be a very diligent lazy person.