The folk story tells that the lazy man eats the cake.

There was a lazy man who lived a life of clothes and food, and his wife usually took care of his life. One day, my wife will go back to her mother's house, and it will take several days to come back. I can't help worrying about how my husband will eat.

After careful consideration, the clever wife came up with a way to bake a big cake, and cut a hole slightly bigger than the lazy man's head in the middle, just enough to pass through the lazy man's head and put it around his neck. This cake is big enough for lazy people to eat for ten days and a half. After all this, my wife went to her mother's house with confidence.

But after a few days at her mother's house, my wife began to worry about her lazy husband, whether he would be hungry or not, and whether she had finished eating the cake. Seeing that she was unable to sleep at night, her family had to let her go home.

When this kind wife came home and opened the door, she saw that the lazy man was lying motionless in bed. When she found out, she was already dead. Look at the big cake around the lazy man's neck, except for the place where his mouth can reach, and nothing else has moved. It turned out that the lazy man didn't even want to turn his head. He only ate the cake that his mouth could reach, and then he starved to death.

Extended information

Eat and die, and do nothing but eat. Metaphor is a person who is poor in spirit, can't find a goal, loses his ideal, and thus has no motivation to do things and muddle along all day.

Anxiety is everywhere. Whenever people encounter something, such as challenges, difficulties or dangers, anxiety will come out and devour us. Anxiety is usually associated with mental shock and imminent and possible threats or dangers.

Its subjective manifestation is that it feels nervous, unhappy and even painful, which makes it difficult to control itself. In severe cases, it will be accompanied by changes or disorders of autonomic nervous system function. We know in our subconscious that anxiety is a bad thing.

and the explanation for eating and waiting for death is: nothing but eating, doing nothing. Metaphor is a person who is poor in spirit, can't find a goal, loses his ideal, and thus has no motivation to do things and muddle along all day. It can be said that it is the most terrible disaster in life when eating and waiting for death to hit anxiety.

Many times, people complain that they can't succeed and blame themselves for being stupid. What people don't know is that there is another idiom, that is, diligence can make up for it. The more people feel that they are not talented, the more they want to pursue the success of their careers, and the more they must know how to be diligent. Diligent people will never worry about their stupidity, because if they know how to be diligent, they will gain half the success. Of course, as the proverb says, "Stupid birds fly first and enter the forest early, and hard work pays off"!

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Mixed Eating and Waiting for Death.