When I Do Nothing....

          Bzzzz….bzzzz….bzzzz, my phone lit up with a text from my friend Ashley. I touched the view button and it said,” what r u up to?” . My response back to this overused text was, “oh nothing much wbu?” But really what I was doing was watching TV and texting many other people because I was so bored with nothing else to do. I don’t know why I said nothing when I was really watching T. So I began to think about this for a pretty long time until I came up with a conclusion.

            There are many reasons why people say they are doing nothing when they really are doing something. The first reason is that they don’t want to talk to anybody at that moment so they just shrug them off and say that they are do nothing thinking that the other person won’t respond. But the truth is the other person knows that you are in fact doing something and they know that you’re trying to ignore them. The other reason why I think people say they’re doing “nothing is because they are trying to hide something. For example one time I was watching TV when I was supposed to be doing homework. Then my mom called me and s\asked me what I was doing and of course I said, “oh nothing just finishing my homework”, so I didn’t get in trouble.  

            Doing “nothing” in today’s world means to do something worthless that does not benefit anyone or anything. Most people would say you should never just do “nothing” because there is always something to be done. But, my personal opinion on this is you should do “nothing” when you feel like it. Because think about it, how do people come up with new ideas such as the new technology these days? They sit down and think how they could improve on old things to make them new technology. Sitting down and thinking is practically doing “nothing”. Therefore, if people didn’t do “nothing” every once and while are world would be a disaster waiting to happen.

            Suddenly my phone lit up again, I instantly thought,”oh great, it’s Ashley again”. So once again I touched the view button and it turns out it was a text from my mom asking me once again, “What are you doing?” I text back “oh nothing just doing my homework”. When really I had just woken up because I fell asleep watching TV and pondering about what I can do instead of watching TV, so I could be productive.  All in all, I think everyone should take a minute out of their life to just do “nothing: because something great might come out of it.