the sweetness of doing nothing
Maybe it’s just the incredibly ambitious and creative company I like to keep, but it seems to me that just about everyone I know feels like their life is absolutely filled to the brim with stuff. We don’t just work, we squeeze in our personal passion projects and we go to grad school and we pay our bills and we go to the gym and we visit friends, and quickly, life can become one big whirlwind of a schedule.
Our days are marked by our levels of productivity, and each task left uncrossed is a reminder of our daily shortcomings, incompetence, failure. There’s never enough time. We scorn our lack of focus.
In the book Excess of Being, author Lera Auerbach writes that “aging happens when growing stops.” We must always be striving and pushing forward.