Your opinion on: Inaction by Paulo Coelho

Do you feel guilty when you do nothing? Meaning - do you feel that you are useless, that nobody cares when you dont do anything or are you capable to relax and wait for the moment to act?

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• Coelho
• Inaction
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• Procrastination
• life

[Mu5clehead]

Life rewards action.

Enough said.

[Mellilope]

No, I don't. I can never relax nor calm down. Its... sad. And nerve wrecking. No matter how much I convince myself that I need a quiet day for myself I will feel guilty neverthe less. But I am working on it, as much as I can. I wish so bad for it to be different.

Wondering how you feel about it.

[mminopuga]

I think you don't do anything when you feel there's no point to do anything, when you've lost hope, then you feel guilty.

[danceswithcrayons]

When it comes from the heart, doing nothing, is doing something, I think. Relaxing is not so easy for me sometimes, but when I do, there is no guilt and very enjoyable. Thank you Paulo!! : )

[Brrup]

You guys wanna hear something funny? When i'm doing nothing, I want to be doing something. When I'm doing something, I want to be doing nothing. How strange we humans are! :P

[vanillainpink]

I felt like the question is directed at me, for i am a 22 year old girl, freshly graduated, pretty occupied with personal engagements for the next two months to look for a job at the moment. But i will dedicatedly do that after i am done.

Do i feel guilty for doing nothing? yes. guilty and depressed, i do feel useless as well, even though what i am occupied with is also part of my future. But, Yes. I am one of those people who think that intentional inaction means uselessness. I admit that.

[Andragonfly]

Not doing anything can be a choice. After a time of activity sometimes the body as well as the mind needs a rest.And it might be that in period of inactivity you might be planning your next activity!

[zalacerne]

I do feel guilty, especially if the final product of doing nothing is not even one thought, conclusion, decision... If I feel that it even didn't serve to rest or unplug the brain... in other words I feel guilty when I know that I am not doing/did anything.. I don't usually say myself that the moment to act will come.. I tend to focus on guilt and I would say that we are learned to do something usefull and to feel guilty if we don't..

[Chopper132231]

I do not feel guilty, I will wait for the time I feel I'm ready to carry out my dreams!

[odiliacarmen]

i feel guilty .. and depressed .. and gloomy.. and I find no joy in anything and all looks grey and boring.. weird he? Sometimes though I fall in a state of peace on contemplation.. thats when I m aware of life and true happiness..