>>16061521I wonder if it's a fear of "doing nothing", also. Which people seem to have. It's always talked as if "doing nothing" is necessarily a bad thing. But why is it? Do you really need to constantly be occupied with doing something, and never have time left to your own thoughts alongside a cup of tea and good music, maybe? There's nothing wrong in spending the whole day like that, if you want to and have nothing mandatory to deal with.
It's even beneficial for you, even if only on occasion you should very well tune your mind out of everything earthly that's going on, and "do nothing". You could be looking at things on your computer screen and not even register them. Probably alright to let music enter your mind because it helps, at least in my case, but otherwise you should pretty much be isolated with your own stream of consciousness. In that state, even if you're not really doing anything, that doesn't mean you're not thinking anything. Therefore, I think that "doing nothing" is important to being able to think. Otherwise, you'd just constantly be doings like a robot. That's not what being human really is.
Maybe I didn't describe that as good as I wanted, but whatever.
I think people have grown to think that they should constantly be doing something and not being occupied is bad, because nowadays instead of consuming media and whatnot, they rather get consumed by them. This probably relates back to people that jump into new things every day?
I mean, life moving at a faster and faster pace is not necessarily a good thing. You're supposed to have moments of doing and being left alone with your thoughts, so that you can actually think. If you're not interested in that or capable of it, then I think it means that your brain has been pretty much rotten by how dependent it has become on stimulation. You constantly need to be getting stimulated by anything by doing it, or you feel that it's wrong. Character limit.
