One of the most difficult things in this world would be to do nothing. Perhaps even more troublesome is the idea, that you must conjure up 500 word on doing nothing. I have never attempted either of the two activities, but I guess there must be a fist time to every thing.
So how do you, do nothing? Do you sit at one place, read book but with an absent mind, or do you just go out for a stroll, or better still sleep? In all these even though you may not be doing anything worthwhile (Figuratively speaking) but you are nevertheless sitting, reading (moving your eyes) walking, sleeping.
Sitting, Reading, Strolling and Sleeping are all activities in themselves aren't they? Ok! May be we can cross reading out of this list since we weren't paying attention in the first place. Even then the other activities are still activities, they do not come into the ambit of doing nothing. So how do we classify, objectively say, that we were doing nothing when in fact, there is perhaps no activity in the current English lexicon that conforms to doing nothing.
Ah well!! Here's the confusion then, what constitutes a worthwhile activity, as opposed to doing nothing? And how do you define doing nothing? A worthwhile activity could be something that produces tangible results, which could be material or non-material.
For example if we say that Max was chopping logs outside. Here Max our subject is chopping logs (activity) and producing tangible results (smaller pieces of log). This is what any dictionary would describe as a worthwhile activity producing tangible results. Now let us see how doing nothing is defined? If you key in Google, "Define Doing Nothing" it will yield this definition,
Leisure or free time, is a period of time spent out of work and essential domestic activity. It is also the period of recreational and discretionary time before or after compulsory activities such as eating and sleeping, going to work or running a business
Now I ask you, Leisure or Free time comprises of what? Doing nothing? But what do you do in leisure, may be stroll but then is that not an activity? May be watch television, that’s an activity as well. Moving on to the next part, of the definition, lets ask our selves what's our idea of recreation? It could be swimming or playing cards, isn't that an activity too?
That’s too much confusion for one day. I guess I'll just leave it at that, save the file and do nothing.
