Week 28. Oasis

2024

7/11/20241 min read

a wooden chair sitting in the middle of a forest
a wooden chair sitting in the middle of a forest

In this rushing world, try to imagine what would happen if we would just stop for a minute. What if we would take that minute to do nothing and try our best to not feel guilty about it?

There are natural and crafted pauses in life. If you live in the northern hemisphere, it’s most likely a vacation season for most people around you, if you’re in the southern hemisphere, nature is making its cycle to a calmer, slower side of the year. Either way, there comes a time to pause and even if we would love our pauses to be filled with purpose and meaning, can we accept ourselves as valuable human beings if we don’t have the stories about the amazing vacations we just went to to tell for our colleagues? Can we appreciate the art of doing nothing, dolce far niente, as valuable and demanding some serious skill as any other activity? Can we stop rationalizing even not doing anything and just accept that maybe nothingness, the emptiness of time, total unproductiveness is also valuable in its own right? From nothing comes something so this week I invite you to be curious about your relationship with nothingness and guilt around it. Should be a week of interesting finds if you ask yourself these questions.


Have a week with moments of proud nothingness.