| Commitments, tasks, high performance, success, projects completed, deadlines... burn out. |
Is there room for a real sense of life in the everyday life of modern man? Weekdays, even weekends, start with the question: what are you going to do today? During holidays, on Sundays, at Easter and Christmas. There is no time for contemplation, for silence and... for doing nothing. Ambition and the display of inexhaustible energy never sleep. Public pressure, above all that on social media, obliges every self-respecting account to share a series of stories and posts that prove activity, acquaintances, time shared with a variety of people and, above all, a climb up the social ladder. At the other pole are the people pressed by the need to discover new methods of self-discovery and self-knowledge, but this burden is not light either. Before taking two weeks to share her unforgettable moments of meditation on Fr. Bali, the modern self worked around the clock to fund the initiative.
Nothingness is actually that normality that dynamism and general euphoria slowly and surely manage to kill. It is the time every mind and body needs, where there is no list, no schedule and no goal. In which, as the kids say, everyone allows themselves to stare at the ceiling without calculating how it affects their image, their success and their desired future. Doing nothing is actually the skill of anyone at any age to behave irresponsibly with their time. To not utilize it, to not compact it, to waste it as if he were 2 and had all the time in the bed.