RE: It's Time for Absolutely Nothing!

I think it’s a bit sad that I deeply relate to this.

Somewhere along the line, “free time” became time to catch up on everything we couldn’t fit into our schedules. It’s as though we’ve forgotten that simply existing without an agenda has value too.
You know it’s interesting how some of our most peaceful moments come from periods when nothing extraordinary happened at all. Maybe doing nothing isn’t wasted time and also maybe, it’s the space that allows us to reconnect with ourselves.
It’s Friday today and I’ll be quitting my job tomorrow. It’s been taking a lot from me than it’s offering.

Umm, thanks though, for sharing this. It’s a timely reminder to me that not every moment has to be productive to be meaningful.

I read an interesting article a few months back, relating to how many choices we have to make in the course of an average day.

These days the number of choices we make in a given day is at an all-time high. The article also examined the fact that the neurochemistry that goes with making choices does not "clear" out of the brain until we go to sleep... it just keeps building with every new choice we face. Consequently we feel exhausted because we just keep being forced into situations where we have to make choices.

The point of doing nothing — simply as an exercise in personal wellness — is that even 15 minutes of doing absolutely nothing (more than maybe looking at grass grow) enables our brain to release some of that neurochemistry that has been backing up, and so we are able to tackle the rest of our day with a little bit more energy.

Anyway, I hope you're quitting what you're doing leads to you finding something that is far more suitable and purposeful.

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