Hamburg University of Fine Arts has announced a grant for idlers: the study of laziness. A scholarship of 1,500 euros will be awarded to candidates who could convince scientists that they will be doing nothing. In the questionnaire, for example, there is a question: “What do you not want to do?” or “Why is it important for you not to do exactly this?” Psychologists say, “Those who have not been lazy have done so much harm that we want to test the benefits of laziness and of phrases such as “I have time to dream,” “I have time to meet friends,” “I have time to do nothing.“ We usually say: “I don’t have time to see my friends” and so on. Being lazy is not easy, it is no simple task for a person to feel free, unencumbered by any obligation. Such people tend to be creative. Science, art, music, and visual arts came from the type of people who never had to do anything in their lives—the aristocrats. They never had to go to work. They met, travelled, and communicated. They engaged in all kinds of musical activities, which gave rise to art, science, and culture. To have the right attitude to artistic, cultural, and scientific pursuits, we need time to do so and not work 15-hour days as so many others do, but only work to have a secure income. We need free time to gather, to sit and talk, and maybe travel. In our times, people need to relate to the world such that they can organize themselves and, in this manner, provide for those who can create art, write music, ensuring them a reasonable standard of living. We will then see a great benefit from this so-called “doing nothing.” The world needs such people, the creative ones, as they give the world exactly the right attitude toward life, toward creation, to the Creator, to everything. They conduct themselves correctly by having time for everything. A creative person should not feel pressure from the outside, only from the inside, if the call arises. Laziness is the most useful quality in a person. Not wanting to be lazy leads to people doing a thousand different and completely unnecessary things. It is written in the Torah, “Sit and do nothing—better.” If one wants to find the right attitude to life, one must stop recklessly and thoughtlessly “create” unnecessary things. Why do we need all the things we have created? Just look at the world. If it is necessary, you will see that you will do it for the whole of human society, and not for your inner egoism. Let nature, the Creator, develop you this way. We live in an animal world and animals do only what they need to do. It is their instinct. They lie, sit, walk, and communicate out of necessity. We are frantic, running around like ants or the like, constantly building things, digging, and extracting, but unnecessarily.