Friday, March 22, 2013
Nothing
This week in sociology, we were given a very interesting assignment. The homework was to do nothing. This sounds easy, but I found extremely hard. You had to do nothing for a minimum of ten minutes, and it look at least six minutes to stop people watching. I did it in school at the Point, where there were people constantly walking past me. I just couldn't focus on the task at hand. It helped to keep reminding myself to do nothing, and just have a clear mind. It didn't exactly go the way I would've hoped, but for like 30 seconds, it kind of worked. In my life, I've mediated, through an elective at a convention, a couple of times. There was a professional who helped us get to the mediation stage. There I found it very easy to mediate, and I loved that feeling of just having a clear mind. Therefore, I anticipated this assignment to be easy, but to my surprise it was very difficult for me.
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that is exactly how I felt.
ReplyDeleteI felt the same even though I too meditate and find it easier to do when either alone or with other people who are meditating. I think that for me it was harder when surrounded by "do-er"s because productivity is socially constructed and there is a social pressure present to conform.
ReplyDeleteI felt the same
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