Give idleness a chance

Yet another book on "doing nothing". "Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America" this time, by Tom Lutz. It does impart to me, a hopeful feeling, to learn that a sizeable number of people, even in today's world, believe (and of course, take pride) in treading this path of higher calling. Our very own "Bhagavadgita", the ultimate Hindu look-up for all kinds of spiritual and worldly crises, too concedes non-action as a higher form of action and the door to enlightenment. I admit that I have to consider myself fortunate because even without knowing anything about that, I probably imbibed, quite early in my childhood, a bias for non-action (I mean this in a consummate sense including no bias for speech too, in case you have read my last post).

But speaking with candor, hasn't the human civilization seen thousands of years of action, honest or otherwise, from our fellow beings wanting to do "something"? And, where has it led us? Actually, it always beats my rather underdeveloped comprehension as to why human beings, otherwise such a courageous specie, give in to that inherent but stupid tendency. I mean, look at this. We all were born perfect, happy and lazy. But, parents decided to do something for us, educated us and gave us values (ah, that painful thing!) against our very nature. The teachers didn't want to be left behind and jumped into the fray. Friends, colleagues and others added to our confusion, in their own ways, to perform, to do something with our life. Now, this is where everything begins. Everyone wants to do something but probably there aren't as many things to do. Ah, but instead of facing up to the reality, we succumbed to the circumstances. We started doing all the baloney (this blog a perfect example of that) in the world just to give ourselves a false sense of accomplishment. Now, it has become a mass folie a duex or something.

Well, pristine idleness has been the story of my life so far and, it will be my best endeavor, despite whatever life thrusts onto me, to continue in this path. Actually, I appeal to all of you, who harbor real hopes of a beautiful world in the future to curb that hardwired enthusiasm in you for "doing something". Let's give idleness a chance! As they say, it's never too late or something. Lazy bums will anyway enjoy the process while people, given to working hard will have to work hard at it. Guess that's what they call a "win-win" situation.