Correction

It was really too harsh of me to say that I assume that no one is reading this blog when I write it. I know people are reading it, so why should I assume otherwise when I hold nothing against those people?

It seems that idleness is not rest, but work in a cruelly hidden form. You may ask, how can doing nothing be work? Well, it is. It's the act of restraining oneself from doing anything, whether it be something fun or something necessary, or even something boring. Who honestly wants to do nothing? Humans cannot function doing nothing. I mean that in the sense that we would not be truly human if we desired to be idle, nor would we really be functioning at all.

I am confused now, in my analysis of this subject, that being idle has so many different meanings in our world. I could be reading mindless books and playing video games, and I could still be called idle in a loose sense because of lack of visible and tangible productivity and benefit to the world. However, I am not idle in the sense that I'm doing nothing. My brain is still working. I may still be thinking and dreaming, even if I may not be thinking and dreaming about the suggested topics.

I may be laying on a bed, drawing something in my mind that might generate tangible resuts later on, and on the surface I seem to be closer to "true idleness" than ever. Yet, I'm not idle. Can it truly be lazy if I'm taking the time to think things through, and then act on them and make them work in the physical sense? Isn't that just being particularly careful?

Indeed, if you're able to make yourself idle in the most literal sense while still keeping your brain intact to use in later times, I find you fascinating.