When we’re idle, it feels like we’re lost, like we don’t know what to do. It’s not that we’re incapable of accomplishing anything, but that we don’t know what to put our time and energy into.
As a result, we do things to pass time, things that aren’t productive or don’t help to organize our space or our thoughts. Things like shopping for items we already have or don’t need, or watching tons of TV (channeling surfing), or looking up news articles for hours when we’ve learned everything we need to know in just a matter of minutes.
I’ve gone through periods of idleness after completing a book or finishing a project. It’s great to get some downtime after months of non-stop work, but at some point, we have to get back to working on something again, or else, we’ll just remain idle, and it’ll be hard to get out of it.
Fallton Havenstonne 