“SOMETIMES I SITS AND THINKS AND SOMETIMES I JUST SITS”

When all the world shouts to be heard, can you tolerate the sound of silence? In this frantic life, in a world that’s moving too fast, have we all forgotten how to just be, in other words  have we lost the art of doing nothing? 

Hadfield said” The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men” but when you are restless can you rest? 

To be able to calm the mind is a magical thing but the process has to start with being still, so if you are racing through an airport, clockwatching to make a meeting on time or working late to meet a deadline, that is not your time. When life is beginning to overtake you, when the body is tired but the mind is racing, and need has become necessity that is the time to step out of the race and regroup.

To simply do nothing is powerful medicine, separate yourself from the world for a little while and absorbed in stillness think back to a time when you lay in long scented grass and watched clouds slowly drift across the sky. A time when you had time to stand and stare at branches heavy with leaves blowing gently in the wind, and let the soothing symphony of movement, light and shade overcome you again.

Anatole France wrote  “Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one labour by taking up another” but memories are a potent medicine  if you stop and listen  carefully, whispers from a time long gone, can still calm you, over and over again.

Title is a quotation from Satchel Paige.