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CH 6: The disconnect between thinking over doing

Those craving socialization and parties, holidays and resorts, beaches and bazaars, restaurants and bars, cafes and malls were forced into solitude and given an opportunity to pause, think, and reflect. Some of you had forgotten the value of quiet hours spent “thinking” as opposed to active hours busy “doing”. Whether counting your days at home due to lockdown, quarantined, lying in a hospital bed, or  recovering, this stillness was overdue for many of you who were accustomed to running – and often running on empty.

In your relentless quest for pleasure, joy, and fun, you forgot the inherent value of doing nothing, which is as important as doing something. Simple acts of idly gazing into the starry night through your bedside window or tracking the Milky Way while lying in a patch of green grass of your lawn that you hardly used are purer and more refreshing than some of the wild and reckless acts that you had missed indulging in. I inspired you to be thoughtful and wise and not corrosively active and impetuously reactive.

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