The sun was in my eyes

Laziness: identifying characteristic #2

Making excuses (that may well appear very 'rational' to him at the time!) to put off doing what needs doing now, or to justify work not done:

The sluggard says, ‘ There is a lion outside!’
or, ‘I will be murdered in the streets!’
Proverbs 22:13

but at the end of the day....

A sluggard does not plough in season;
so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.
Proverbs 20:4

(Future Men, Ch 7)