Flannery O’Connor’s diary entry on living a good, lazy life‘Seize the day!’ That’s what people declare. But no, in the mind of writer Flannery O’Connor, that was too much, and also not enough. Maybe hopeful is a strange word for this because what O’Connor is writing about, realistically, is laziness. Clearly not in a phase of getting a lot done or being clear-brained, she takes the phrase ‘tidy space, tidy mind’ and makes it clear how messy everything feels. Then, right when they do, you can look them in their eyes and tell them that famed American author, no, iconic American author, Flannery O’Connor says it is absolutely fine to merely keep avoiding everything.