ok, I was thinking about this today.  I remembered when I was little and I could sit in the backyard for hours just staring at clouds or the grass and thinking.  Seriously, I did this and I think it was a pretty common thing to do back in the ‘day’ as ‘they’ say, but since I’m closer to 40 than I am to 10 at this point, I was wondering why people don’t do this when they grow up.

I loved sitting around doing nothing; I invented things, dreamed up stories, imagined things I’d do another day.  It was relaxing and my mind could do whatever it wanted to do. Once on a trip back from a family vacation, I remember sitting in the truck, driving home and playing with my seat belt - I thought up an entire barbie doll wardrobe that afternoon, just by folding the seat belt in different ways.  It amused me for hours, which probably made my parents very happy.

Anyway, today it was hot outside - over 80 F after months and months of snow, rain and cold weather, and I thought to myself, ‘why is it that people don’t just do NOTHING anymore?’.  It was something to ponder, as I sat and did NOTHING.  So, that’s what I did.  I just did what I used to do as a kid; I sat and let my mind wander and thought about nothing in particular, just to let my mind flow and relax.

Guess what?  Adults don’t do this, I believe, because they do exactly what I did - fall asleep.