nothing.

Never underestimate the importance of learning to relax.

“Nothing” is on the schedule for this week. You know you’ve fallen into bad habits when you have to write “nothing” across the day in your planner in order to have nothing to do. Through no fault of my own, I’ve become one of those people who doesn’t know how to relax. It took a broken bone to do it, but I am slowly learning the value of being still and the skill of doing nothing. As we move further and further into our adult lives, we pile on the commitments like the conveyor belt of candy on that episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy and Ethel go to work in a candy factory. You know the one. Life is like that - just when you think you can handle the load, someone yells “speed it up” and before long, you’re stuffing the candy in your shirt, hat and mouth. Staying off your foot is harder than it seems and I’ve learned to appreciate really small but special things. Things like the subtle shift of light as the sun makes its way through the day. There’s something really humbling about staying in the same place as other things move around you. I urge you to do it sometime.

It’s hard work, this doing nothing, but oh so rewarding.