Proven: being lazy is contagious

If you don't make many more movements on Sunday than from your bed to the couch and back from the couch to your bed, it might not even be so much your fault.

Whether you have a lazy day or not largely depends on your environment. Laziness can be a bit contagious. If your partner is comfortably horizontal on the couch, completely hidden from everything that is called a social activity, then the chance is greater that you will also secretly cancel your weekend plans for a bit more free time . People are naturally herd animals, because what the rest does, you want to do too. If your housemate is active on Sunday morning, then you also jump out of bed full of energy and enthusiasm. But yes, if everyone in the house is sluggishly hanging on the couch, then you will follow that behavior again. We humans mirror more behavior than we consciously realize.

By the way, being a little lazy is not such a big deal, you know. Doing nothing for a while is actually very important for you. And we do it too little, because right now we are planning our schedules fuller and fuller. So don't worry if you suddenly feel bored one day: be proud of it. You have less chance of a burnout, you are less tense, and you can concentrate better because of it. You are happier and you can actually think clearly and creatively. Boredom is a moment of complete rest, a moment when you don't have to or must do anything. From no one. That relaxes more than you think.

In short, put those crosses a bit more often left and right in your agenda. And plan, just for a change, not even one cup of coffee with anyone. A free evening? Keep it that way. An evening alone at home? Lucky you. Doing nothing is the new partying, something like that.

FACTS

• We work more on Saturday than on Sunday: 44% of the Dutch work on Saturdays, a quarter of the people work on Sundays
• Half of all Dutch people sometimes work in the evening, on weekends, or even at night
• More men (57%) than women (52%) work outside the standard hours of nine to five

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