"....But what I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, What are you going to do Christopher Robin, and you say, Oh, nothing, and you go and do it." "Oh, I see," said Pooh. "This is a nothing sort of thing that we are doing right now." "Oh I see," said Pooh again. "It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.
A. A. Milne
After just buying a house, and traveling a lot, and life just getting all kinds of busy without even meaning for it to, we have been trying to be conscious of just doing Nothing more often. After coming out of a life that was so "busy" this is an art I have had to learn. And it not just about learning how to do it, but learning what it actually means....I think it means to just Be. It is difficult sometimes, to slow down. But it isn't necessarily resting, or being lazy, although those are nice too! Doing Nothing is definitely an active thing, it requires presence. And it is slowly becoming what I like to do best.
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