THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING
IF THERE’S one thing lockdown has forced most of us to do it’s to slow down. You might still be busy with home-schooling and cooking and cleaning, but that frenetic rushing around between home and school and work and extramural activities and gym and doctors’ appointments – it’s just not happening anymore.
We’ve unexpectedly been thrown into the Dutch practice of niksen. Put simply, niksen is the practice of doing nothing – or of doing something without a sense of purpose, such as staring out the window or listening to music.
