Busy doing nothing....can you sit and do sod all?

[gremlin]

I've been signed off for another fortnight, which I'm fine with as I still ain't right. I've been told umpteen times to take it easy, put my feet up, get rest and recover, but I'm incapable of sitting and doing nothing as it seems a waste of time. I've read couple of books, cooked a shit ton of stuff and been doing jobs that I can (plus some I shouldn't...lifting floors and moving shower trays...me? Nah).
I've even taken to making my own amaro, FFS.

Can you sit and watch Netflix all day? How do retirees cope with nothing to do?

[Yorick]

Oh yes. I've got a fucking degree in it

[weeksy]

Can you sit and watch Netflix all day? How do retirees cope with nothing to do?

Standard working day

[636mick]

Technic Lego, if you’ve never tried it, hours fly by and it’s relaxing, for me anyway.

[Trinity765]

When I sit and do nothing I fall asleep so I am either doing something or I am sleeping.

[Yorick]

When I sit and do nothing I fall asleep so I am either doing something or I am sleeping.

That sounds like a riddle

[Taipan]

It's enforced rest I don't like. E.G. have surgery and told to sit about, rest and only do certain exercises. That drove me mad as I felt imprisoned by it. But i'm quite happy to loaf about sunbathing with a icy cold beer or watching a matinee on a rainy afternoon. I guess it simply comes down to whose choice it is.

[Yorick]

. But i'm quite happy to loaf about sunbathing with a icy cold beer

That's a good idea

[gremlin]

Technic Lego, if you’ve never tried it, hours fly by and it’s relaxing, for me anyway.

That to me would fall into my 'waste of time' category. There's always a voice in the back of my head, making me feel guilty about not doing something 'productive'. Weird, as I never had an overbearing mother who made me do chores or extra homework as a child. In fact, she sleeps so much that giant sloths look on in envy.

I had plans to wash the bike this afternoon but the rain has put paid to that. I'll have to rearrange my sock drawer again, this time into colour order....

[Yorick]

When I retired I tried to keep busy. Now I just do what I want.
But do insist on walking at least 6 miles a day to keep well.

[KungFooBob]

Learn Python.

[gremlin]

Learn to wrestle the Python.

Doc says to give that a few more weeks yet.

[cheb]

I get paid to do that at work, sometimes it's almost intolerable the urge to move is so strong.

I've various levels of work I do, from faintly strenuous, strimming overgrown grass and bracken on a 45 degree slope for example, to footling about getting dead electricals back to working.

Or: Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.

[Count Steer]

I make stuff....in an arty/crafty manner. Some of it useful, some of it nice to look at. I started selling some of the useful stuff, then it turned into a chore so I stopped and just make things for own use/presents. TBH I like learning how to do new things. I was going to volunteer for the local 'men's shed' but there's a waiting list.

Really got started when I was immobilised/on crutches and needed something to occupy the time spent with my feet off the ground.

Once the weather perks up I've got a backlog of home/garden/cabin diy/maintenance to do.

One thing that doesn't feature in the 'what to do with the time' equation is TV. I still can't get used to the idea that some people put it on in the morning and it stays on all day.

[Saga Lout]

Oh yes. I've got a fucking degree in it

Me too.

I'd like to be unhappy but...

[Rockburner]

I seem to be the opposite.

I can quite happily loaf around and i only start feeling guilty about it when it's far too late to get up and start one of the long list of jobs i have to do.

[Noggin]

I'm a bit like CS, I make stuff, less arty, more crafty!!

But, having a few years of not being able to do that, or being able to do most stuff, I did learn to just sit and read. I never actually 'watch' tv unless with someone else also watching. But it's usually on in the background to make me feel less on my own - hearing 'chat' helps me. Whilst I love music, it's not quite 'enough' when I have to just sit.

But, like today, back issue means I can't ski, I'm a bit stressed, so I cook! I've made some pastry to turn into pies tomorrow and two lots of biscuit cough. Now I have to go out to buy some baking paper as I've run out, so can't do the cooking of biscuits before then


But just sitting is very tough. I'd rather sit and make lego than sit and do nothing. Even reading is better than just sitting, but i've had far too many days/months/years of restriction - just kinda get resigned to it when you physically can't do stuff

But having ability and not being supposed to stuff is really hard

[Couchy]

Do nothing, no chance. Can manage perhaps half an hour. Menial stuff doesn’t count either it has to be something I enjoy or gives me a buzz.

[Cousin Jack]

I can spend all day doing nothing for days on end.

A fair time spent on you tube, amazing variety of stuff, some of it very educational, other stuff just entertaining. Then a bit of planning, of holidays/tours I can't afford/am too old to do. With lots of on line research. And when that is done I can read for hours.

I have no problem with doing nothing, it is quite interesting.

[Count Steer]

I seem to be the opposite.

I can quite happily loaf around and i only start feeling guilty about it when it's far too late to get up and start one of the long list of jobs i have to do.

Well, when the mood takes me I can do nothing to an Olympic standard. I did once respond to being handed a work task that I thought was a waste of time that I could waste my time far more pleasurably if left to my own devices. Can't do it for long though and will often just go out for a walk in the woods, which is a very pleasant and healthy way of doing 'nothing much'.

Funnily enough I can do quite a lot of 'nothing' while appearing to do 'something' if there's a job to do that I can't summon up much enthusiasm for.