Take a Step Back, Take a Long Walk, Take a Deep Breath
Reflect. Review. Rethink.
Life’s increasingly becoming a bustling metropolis, and we’re sometimes (a lot of times) left stumbling across paths and lanes, sometimes stuck, without a life compass or its modern equivalent — a metaphorical navigation app.
Jumping on every next boat that’s sailing off the shores means not having time to plan your voyage. Well if you’re not fond of planning and instead seek an adventure out of life, it means you’re stuck going from one point to the other, without profoundly going anywhere or nowhere.
We’re getting busier, and then we look for ways to fit more productivity in a day, and then we (try to) embrace sleep as we complete the full circle, and get busy again.
“I’d rather do nothing than do something all the time.”
This isn’t something I’ve heard often. Not having something to do sometimes might seem like you aren’t worthy of new projects, or you’re missing out on things, and your resume isn’t adding pages, and you’re wasting your life away while millions of problem linger in the world.
But can we take short leaps? Of doing nothing, of creating a temporary life of systemic disarray, which gives us the space and flexibility and freedom to jump across, swim away, and probably land up on the shores of a meaningful project to pursue next!
Pico Iyer’s TED Talk on ‘The Art of Stillness’ and Greg McKeown’s ‘Essentialism’ are good areas to explore and live with ‘less, but better’ way.
