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I watched a child playing the other day and he was so busy and his
sister equally so. All that energy expended in the sheer joy of living and I
thought how idleness is only good when it takes place after a host of doing.
It is why when someone says to me that they are about
to retire I first congratulate them and then ask the question, “What are you
retiring to?”
What purpose indeed? What goal that
enlivens the waking up process. As beautiful as a sunrise or a sunset is it is
not enough unless some of the time in between is filled with doing.
They put together a psychological test recently and
took two groups of people. One group volunteered to carry a package a goodly
distance and a second group was told they had to carry the package the same
distance. Where it was voluntary or by demand…the group
that got up and got going was happier and more content afterwards than the group
that sat idly by.
The mood of idleness is negative.
The great psychologist William James put it well when
he wrote, “Neither the nature nor the amount of our work is accountable for the
frequency and severity of our breakdowns. But their cause lies, rather in that
absurd feeling of hurry and having no time, in breathlessness and tension and
anxiety.”
In short, sometimes we need to let our clocks
run down. Sometimes we need to get so engrossed in a
game we are playing, a book we are reading, or a job we are completing we don’t
care what time it is. Again, retire to what!
It’s using time like we appreciate and admire
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