It's a few months since I hung up my University cape, yet here I am, still tying up loose threads, still saying yes to things I don't really have to. What then, does retirement really mean?
Enjoyed reading your post. I feel incessant productivity (not activity) is a kind of pathology. If feeds into burdening an already exhausted planet. Think about it - leisure and not doing anything that can be quantified or monetised would be good for a culture that is so obsessed with onwards and forward slogans. That would be good for the environment too. I guess one can be useful by just being. :)
Enjoyed reading your post. I feel incessant productivity (not activity) is a kind of pathology. If feeds into burdening an already exhausted planet. Think about it - leisure and not doing anything that can be quantified or monetised would be good for a culture that is so obsessed with onwards and forward slogans. That would be good for the environment too. I guess one can be useful by just being. :)
That is true! It's something we have to school ourselves out of--or at least I do!