Doing nothing

This was a normal day like any other.
Nothing great had happened since morning. I was only thinking about how things could be different for the rest of the day.
I sat down and started thinking of various things that I wanted to do, I must do and I could postpone. Well, the last list should have been smaller, but when I sat down to write, it started becoming bigger and bigger. It means that I was left with nothing to do and then decided to chill down doing nothing.
Doing nothing has no meaning because even if you are sitting idle something is happening to your body and mind though you may not be feeling the doership.
for example, the Earth is moving continuously, which means you are moving continuously but not aware of it. You are breathing but you are not aware of it, you are digesting your food but you are not aware of it, the blood is flowing, the heart is beating, and thoughts are coming and going but you are not aware. So lot of life is happening without your awareness and that is why they say awareness is most important if you have to live your life fully.
Well, this sounds a bit philosophical but if you implement awareness in your life then you are going to enjoy it more.
The Japanese tea ceremony is a classic example of enjoying every moment by being aware of every step from pouring the tea into a cup to drinking every sip. Same way when you observe a flower with full awareness by being in the moment then it is possible to experience its beauty which exists in different aspects of its form that otherwise would have been never noticed.
When I was doing the basic course of Art Of Living, on the 3rd or 4th day the teacher asked us not to eat anything till lunchtime. By lunchtime, all of us were simply looking forward to eating our food.
Then came the moment we were waiting. The lunch was to start. Now all that we wanted was to open our lunch boxes and hog all the food.
But it was not to be so. We were all given a grape and told to put it in our mouth but not eat it.
The teacher started giving us the instructions " Just feel the grape, feel it using your tongue, feel its roundness, its softness ". We did it patiently and experienced the shape like never before. The next instruction was "Take a small bite and feel the sweetness of grape juice drop by drop ". It was the tastiest juice we ever had (maybe like nectar which we will taste sometime in the future😅).
In normal circumstances, we would have simply chewed the grape without feeling its shape, its taste. It would have been a mechanical process like a sugarcane juice machine that extracts the juice without experiencing it. But with awareness, we went beyond being a machine and could experience what the grape is really like.

This applies to every moment of life because there is beauty in every moment, in every form that we ignore.
And when we learn to experience it then life can certainly become much more beautiful and enjoyable.