Boketto: Discover the Importance of Not Doing

Tessa Palmer
Nov 2 · 3 min read

Do you ever catch yourself, staring out the window at nothing?

I often find myself gazing mindlessly into empty space, not really look at anything but not really thinking about anything either. My eyes aren’t focused and my brain certainly isn’t either.

Turns out this phenomenon has a rather beautiful name in Japenese:

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