Do nothing...
On this official nothing day, you should take a moment to take a closer look at yourself because.
“Nothing has to. nothing may'
Are you someone who always feels guilty when you've done nothing for a day? Or can you also spend a day of nothing without that guilt?
Why do you often get the feeling that you are useless when you can't do anything for a moment? Why does it often seem like you benefit from time that you would spend better differently and preferably in a useful way?
What I noticed enormously in recent days (during my recovery from the coronavirus) is that I always wanted to do something again, even though sometimes I barely managed to get out of my bed. I still wanted to make a blog or I still wanted to load in the washing machine or I still wanted to make tea and draw a little,. The feeling of doing nothing at all, I couldn't live with that. I felt so useless.
Crazy actually when you consider that when we're still baby, we don't have a problem with that at all, we just sleep, eat and defecate and for the rest it seems like we shouldn't have anything at all.
Yes, I say, “it seems. “because there are a lot of expectations set by others. You need to grow and learn and evolve. Preferably also according to a certain schedule because otherwise you get a stamp with 'backlog' or 'too low' on the normal curve.
Your own pace is simply ignored and a life full of 'must' starts from the moment you see the light of day or even from the moment you are still growing in the womb. To be productive and blend in with the large mass of productive beings, it is strived to.
Unfortunately, because often this also does not listen to the body, even our sleep to recuperate, we try to influence ourselves to fit into the pattern of productivity and when that pattern is no longer applicable, we panic.
If you have nothing to do and nothing, we are looking for a way to comply with the big picture, we are going to look for a reason to. , we still want to feel useful and so we're going to come up with something to do.
When I spent the last few days mostly in my bed because the virus in my body caused me to be tired, I was looking for a reason to “be allowed” to lie in bed, I told myself that I had to rest to recover, so sleeping became useful and responsible. If I would do the same thing in bed at a different time when I'm not sick, that's being lazy and irresponsible according to myself and my environment.
So the question that concerns me now is:
Does 'do nothing 'actually exist in the first place?
Happy nothing day.
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Great blog post again.