Hustle bustle, rush lunches to be packed before 7 am, deadlines to be met, aren’t we busier and than the beavers? Sometimes I think we are like the ants going hither whither filled with our self importance. It took Harold Pullman an newsman to rescue the Americans, but there seems no respite for the Indians in India!
In 1973 Harold Pullman coffin decided that Americans needed to have one national day when they could just sit without celebrating, observing or honoring nothing. Various groups claiming calendar days had become a cliché. So a need for a day without formalities and focus on self was essential. In 1972 the day was born and since 1973 it is celebrated.
Habitually activities are listed, but essentially nothing is done. So obviously it has not been passed as an act of the congress.
Intellectuals have condemned it as laziness. But psychiatrists recommend that it should be honored once a month.
Yet doing nothing is a challenge. And to a lot of extent uplifting to the soul, wake up late, watch the birds, laze!
So shut off your computers, turn off the television, do away with your to do lists, and hide your mobiles.
Have a happy nothing day , tomorrow we shall consider having our congress pass an act on this for us in India! The Babu’s will be officially doing their duties then. J
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