Love this!!! 10000000000% a 'Nothing Day' is the best kind of day!!! In fact, it should be implemented into full time work that we get a 'Nothing Day' off once a fortnight. 😉
We are trained to believe that productivity means to ensure that we do something at every point of time in our day. But who said so? Like you said doing nothing feels blissful. Though I can’t get an entire day, maybe a night or the mornings. It is peaceful. So cheers to doing nothing, Isabel.
Also I love that episode where the one with dirty apartment when Monica ends up cleaning her door at the end.
We are! And that ‘resting’ is ‘lazy’. If you’re beating yourself up for ‘resting’, thinking about all the things you have to do, that’s not rest!! We’ve forgotten that with all the conveniences we’re now afforded, we’re meant to spend more time being unproductive — not fill our time.
I wish you did get a day, but you’ve gotta take your peace where you can find it.
Me too — Monica tells her she couldn’t sleep thinking about it! Classic.
Nice read Bellatrix. I can relate. It reminded me of one of my favourite pieces of writing by Tim Kreider- “Lazy: A manifesto”. Give it a squizz if you have never come across it- I think you’ll enjoy. It’s part of a book of essays but here’s a version online here http://www.staystrongsc.com/blog/2017/1/8/lazy-a-manifesto
Love this!!! 10000000000% a 'Nothing Day' is the best kind of day!!! In fact, it should be implemented into full time work that we get a 'Nothing Day' off once a fortnight. 😉
AGREED, GF. This is why you should you be PM.
We are trained to believe that productivity means to ensure that we do something at every point of time in our day. But who said so? Like you said doing nothing feels blissful. Though I can’t get an entire day, maybe a night or the mornings. It is peaceful. So cheers to doing nothing, Isabel.
Also I love that episode where the one with dirty apartment when Monica ends up cleaning her door at the end.
We are! And that ‘resting’ is ‘lazy’. If you’re beating yourself up for ‘resting’, thinking about all the things you have to do, that’s not rest!! We’ve forgotten that with all the conveniences we’re now afforded, we’re meant to spend more time being unproductive — not fill our time.
I wish you did get a day, but you’ve gotta take your peace where you can find it.
Me too — Monica tells her she couldn’t sleep thinking about it! Classic.
Nice read Bellatrix. I can relate. It reminded me of one of my favourite pieces of writing by Tim Kreider- “Lazy: A manifesto”. Give it a squizz if you have never come across it- I think you’ll enjoy. It’s part of a book of essays but here’s a version online here http://www.staystrongsc.com/blog/2017/1/8/lazy-a-manifesto
I LOVED that so much I wish I wrote it. It feels like I did write it, as it’s honestly me.
This line: ‘they are addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence.’
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I’m buying the book! Thanks for sharing Pannie 🩷
Yes! The book is so good. You’ll love it