Doing Nothing

There are times when we don't have anything to do and all the work we have is doing "nothing" and believe me from past few weeks I have been really busy...Busy doing nothing!!

There has been no college, no lectures and no practicals (bliss it might seem to the freshers). Even the teachers want us to have all the fun ;) and they make it a point to put in the least of their efforts which could pull us back to the classes. But then who cares, we Indians have this inherent quality of utilizing our time in the best possible way...by doing nothing!!

Doing nothing is also an art; ask the western people who can never sit idle. They are always engaged in one thing or the other. Back in January I met one of my cousins who puts up in Auckland and was back home on vacations that too after a strenuous internship of six months and what left me not really amazed was that even on vacations he joined some silly animation course just to make a proper use of free time. I wonder why can't people once in a while resent from indulging themselves in any kind of work and sit back, enjoy the stillness. 
No doubt life needs to be active...like the flowing water which appears more pleasing than the still water. But, then how many of us have felt the pleasures of laying  below the sidereal sky in its captivating depths, how many of us have sat on the top of a mountain with music playing in the ears and felt the stillness of a early winter morning and felt the balmy breeze.

Even such phases of doing nothing help us in discovering the self at times. Imagine I realized I had an artist hiding deep within who could draw more than those conventional snow covered hill tops with sun shining in between, those cylindrical huts with triangular roofs and of course not to miss my favorite coconut trees. Even the Gods would have cried seeing the havoc created in my paintings earlier (coconut trees in a snow covered landscape) But, then this is creativity…and creativity has no limits!

Anyways coming to the point I did some decent glass painting.

Nonetheless these days of doing nothing would really be missed especially in mid may when the semester exams will be overhead and it would be exam madness all around!