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This article takes me way back to a conversation I used to have with my Dad when I was in my youth. I would see my Dad out in the back yard at his picnic table under the large Sycamore tree, so I would go outside and ask him what he was up to. He would say “I’m doing absolutely nothing and it’s wonderful”. Of course, I then asked him what he was looking at (this was way before cell phones), he said “nothing, not a thing”. Then I asked him, well then what are you thinking about? His answer was of course “nothing, my mind is blank”. He finally wrapped all this up to tell me, “someday, I hope you can get good at just doing nothing every once in a while, you’ll see, it’s good for you”.
Like with most other words of wisdom he passed on over the years, he was right again. :)