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Sweetness of Doing Nothing

Today, I decided to do nothing. Literally nothing. When I use the word ‘literally’, I often misuse it and use it figuratively. But this time, I was going to use it correctly and hence do nothing, be idle. Typically, when I want to relax and enjoy my free time, I head to a coffee shop, order an oat latte, and try to write a blog post. I said ‘try to’ because writing does not really occur when I want to write. The ideas usually come to my mind while I am doing something else, like walking on the street, running errands, or at any other inconvenient time to open a laptop. The moment I have these sentences floating around my mind, if I can write them down, I can then edit and compose a blog post from them. If not, the ideas are gone forever. So, it’s a process that happens outside of my will and control. But today I wasn’t going to do that either because writing a blog post is doing something that totally contradicts the whole purpose of the day. I told myself that I was just going to ...