Do you ever sit around and do nothing?
Do you feel bad and guilty about it, or is rest a priority in your life? Do you ever sit around and do nothing — or nothing that is tied to a concrete outcome or goal?
Do you often feel guilty for spending time resting, daydreaming or lazing about? Or are these important parts of your everyday life? Do you agree that rest has a stigma, particularly in the United States? Can you give an example from your own life, or from something you’ve seen or heard about, when resting or laziness was looked down upon?
Do you think laziness can be a good thing? Rabbi Kukla argues that prioritizing rest could help people take better care of themselves, each other and our world. Describe in your own words what that could look like. Or, if you disagree, explain why these actions would not bring about change.
The essay states: “It’s poor, unhoused, young, Black, brown, mentally ill, fat and chronically sick people who are most often accused of sloth. We rarely hear about lazy billionaires, no matter how much of their fortune is inherited.” What is your reaction to this statement? Does it match what you’ve seen or experienced in the world? Why or why not?
If you were given a whole day in which you had nothing to accomplish and you did not have to be productive at all, how would you spend it? Would you take the opportunity to rest? Would you feel bad about taking a break? Would you opt to do work instead? Does anyone else just sit around and do nothing a lot of the time?
Lately I’ve been feeling so lonely and shitty that I’m not really interested in doing anything. I don’t want to be seen by people, so I dont leave my house. I spend a lot of time watching tv and if I’m not doing that I’m browsing around online aimlessly spending hours looking at nothing. I feel like I’m wasting my life but I don’t know how to change. How do you go from sitting around doing nothing everyday to having a life?
How do you go from sitting around doing nothing everyday to having a life? How do I add meaning to my life? All I do is sit at home in my room doing nothing
TL;DR 17M, summer holidays have arrived, nothing to do, procrastinating, stopped going to the gym, talking to noone, addicted to masturbation and porn, want to do something with my time and not waste it.
All I do is wake up at 11, jack off for an hour, get out of bed, have a shower and then sit down at my computer doing nothing for a day until 12PM then I go to bed. There is no meaning or purpose to my life it is just so boring.
I bought a home gym and was working out for 3 weeks to try and get fit, I looked the best I ever had, a body fat of 13%, my muscles were strong and I went to the gym nearly every other day.
Since college has been out I stopped going to the gym as much, I am starting to look soft and fluffy, definition is down, motivation is down, body fat is up to 15%.
All I have done today is wake up, cut my hair, jacked off, went on the gym for 15 minutes and now I'm writing this.
I have no motivation to program (what I love to do), no motivation to go to the gym, not even any motivation to do anything today, just want to go to sleep and wake up when college starts so I have something to do.
I have watched a lot of videos on motivation yet I can't seem to get any.
What can I do to add meaning and purpose to my life?
How can I get motivation? I'm been having issues with productivity and it's been going on for years. For the last two days I've been sitting around doing nothing. I got Smash Bros Melee a few weeks ago, and today I unlocked the last two characters and beat the last 11 event matches. Otherwise I've mostly listened to the news, browsed reddit, and played video games. A lot of people have issues with procrastination, but I've had cases where I've sat around procrastinating for eight straight hours.
I think in this case it's also procrastination. There is a personal project I want to work on, and there's an exam I need to study for. If I was productive I'd be done with the project and be ready for my exam, but I'm not. For every productive hour there are probably two or three doing nothing.
This also blocks me from doing other stuff. I will skip out on social events because I need to study, but because I'm only productive maybe a third of the time, it's either done to make up for lost time, or that time is also wasted. That said, sometimes I purposely go out when I know I should do something else, knowing that if I just wasted six hours, I'm not reliable to spend the next few well. By sitting down doing nothing, all you do is think, think, and overthink. You will overanalyse the mistakes you made and you will overthink the regrets you have, and you will hate yourself for all the things that you have done to the people who love and care for you. You begin to question everything about your life so far. And you begin to think and give time to things that just aren't worth it. It will drive you to insanity/depression. Don't feel sorry for yourself. Get the hell out and do something about it. I know all of this because this has been me for the past week, sat around recovering from major knee surgery. Cannot wait to get the hell back out there. Please guys, don't overthink things - it doesn't do any good. Be a man. Grow some balls. Stand by your decisions, all of them. You will always upset somebody whatever you do, that's life. Just be a man about it. Does any of you suffer from severe escapism and social isolation? I sit in my room all day, every day just killing time by watching videos, netflix, reading articles, listening music, working out etc. Wasting life, living on auto-pilot.
I'm 21, I quit school, I don't have a job (only do some business activities online that makes me some money to pay the bills), and don't have any social contacts except from my family in the house and 2-3 friends that I only see once or twice a month when I'm drunk. Haven't seen them sober in ages.
I'm also introverted and have social anxiety, and sitting alone in my room all day for a pretty long time now doesn't really help with my social skills. Even walking the streets filled with people makes me feel uncomfortable. Being isolated from people for so long makes it harder to understand and communicate with them. I only go outside to go the store, or sometimes just ride around with my scooter around if it's nice weather. I don't think I'm depressed though, sometimes I feel like it, but I can deal with my situation, it just sucks. Not happy either, I drink a lot because that makes me "happy", or just makes me forget who I really am. Seeing people on social media, having friends, being themselves, having fun and living their life is a little painful sometimes, I guess that type of life ain't it for me. It sparks some jealousy in me now and then. I don't know, just had to get this off my chest. Maybe some other people are dealing with this type of situation, or have dealt and found a way to get out of this type of living. I want to turn my life around, wake up early, hit the streets for a run, attend social activities, be involved. Beat my insecurities and start living. Someday.
Do you often feel guilty for spending time resting, daydreaming or lazing about? Or are these important parts of your everyday life? Do you agree that rest has a stigma, particularly in the United States? Can you give an example from your own life, or from something you’ve seen or heard about, when resting or laziness was looked down upon?
Do you think laziness can be a good thing? Rabbi Kukla argues that prioritizing rest could help people take better care of themselves, each other and our world. Describe in your own words what that could look like. Or, if you disagree, explain why these actions would not bring about change.
The essay states: “It’s poor, unhoused, young, Black, brown, mentally ill, fat and chronically sick people who are most often accused of sloth. We rarely hear about lazy billionaires, no matter how much of their fortune is inherited.” What is your reaction to this statement? Does it match what you’ve seen or experienced in the world? Why or why not?
If you were given a whole day in which you had nothing to accomplish and you did not have to be productive at all, how would you spend it? Would you take the opportunity to rest? Would you feel bad about taking a break? Would you opt to do work instead? Does anyone else just sit around and do nothing a lot of the time?
Lately I’ve been feeling so lonely and shitty that I’m not really interested in doing anything. I don’t want to be seen by people, so I dont leave my house. I spend a lot of time watching tv and if I’m not doing that I’m browsing around online aimlessly spending hours looking at nothing. I feel like I’m wasting my life but I don’t know how to change. How do you go from sitting around doing nothing everyday to having a life?
How do you go from sitting around doing nothing everyday to having a life? How do I add meaning to my life? All I do is sit at home in my room doing nothing
TL;DR 17M, summer holidays have arrived, nothing to do, procrastinating, stopped going to the gym, talking to noone, addicted to masturbation and porn, want to do something with my time and not waste it.
All I do is wake up at 11, jack off for an hour, get out of bed, have a shower and then sit down at my computer doing nothing for a day until 12PM then I go to bed. There is no meaning or purpose to my life it is just so boring.
I bought a home gym and was working out for 3 weeks to try and get fit, I looked the best I ever had, a body fat of 13%, my muscles were strong and I went to the gym nearly every other day.
Since college has been out I stopped going to the gym as much, I am starting to look soft and fluffy, definition is down, motivation is down, body fat is up to 15%.
All I have done today is wake up, cut my hair, jacked off, went on the gym for 15 minutes and now I'm writing this.
I have no motivation to program (what I love to do), no motivation to go to the gym, not even any motivation to do anything today, just want to go to sleep and wake up when college starts so I have something to do.
I have watched a lot of videos on motivation yet I can't seem to get any.
What can I do to add meaning and purpose to my life?
How can I get motivation? I'm been having issues with productivity and it's been going on for years. For the last two days I've been sitting around doing nothing. I got Smash Bros Melee a few weeks ago, and today I unlocked the last two characters and beat the last 11 event matches. Otherwise I've mostly listened to the news, browsed reddit, and played video games. A lot of people have issues with procrastination, but I've had cases where I've sat around procrastinating for eight straight hours.
I think in this case it's also procrastination. There is a personal project I want to work on, and there's an exam I need to study for. If I was productive I'd be done with the project and be ready for my exam, but I'm not. For every productive hour there are probably two or three doing nothing.
This also blocks me from doing other stuff. I will skip out on social events because I need to study, but because I'm only productive maybe a third of the time, it's either done to make up for lost time, or that time is also wasted. That said, sometimes I purposely go out when I know I should do something else, knowing that if I just wasted six hours, I'm not reliable to spend the next few well. By sitting down doing nothing, all you do is think, think, and overthink. You will overanalyse the mistakes you made and you will overthink the regrets you have, and you will hate yourself for all the things that you have done to the people who love and care for you. You begin to question everything about your life so far. And you begin to think and give time to things that just aren't worth it. It will drive you to insanity/depression. Don't feel sorry for yourself. Get the hell out and do something about it. I know all of this because this has been me for the past week, sat around recovering from major knee surgery. Cannot wait to get the hell back out there. Please guys, don't overthink things - it doesn't do any good. Be a man. Grow some balls. Stand by your decisions, all of them. You will always upset somebody whatever you do, that's life. Just be a man about it. Does any of you suffer from severe escapism and social isolation? I sit in my room all day, every day just killing time by watching videos, netflix, reading articles, listening music, working out etc. Wasting life, living on auto-pilot.
I'm 21, I quit school, I don't have a job (only do some business activities online that makes me some money to pay the bills), and don't have any social contacts except from my family in the house and 2-3 friends that I only see once or twice a month when I'm drunk. Haven't seen them sober in ages.
I'm also introverted and have social anxiety, and sitting alone in my room all day for a pretty long time now doesn't really help with my social skills. Even walking the streets filled with people makes me feel uncomfortable. Being isolated from people for so long makes it harder to understand and communicate with them. I only go outside to go the store, or sometimes just ride around with my scooter around if it's nice weather. I don't think I'm depressed though, sometimes I feel like it, but I can deal with my situation, it just sucks. Not happy either, I drink a lot because that makes me "happy", or just makes me forget who I really am. Seeing people on social media, having friends, being themselves, having fun and living their life is a little painful sometimes, I guess that type of life ain't it for me. It sparks some jealousy in me now and then. I don't know, just had to get this off my chest. Maybe some other people are dealing with this type of situation, or have dealt and found a way to get out of this type of living. I want to turn my life around, wake up early, hit the streets for a run, attend social activities, be involved. Beat my insecurities and start living. Someday.
