Where to Start With Doing Less
It's eleven at night, and you've typed a question into your phone you'd never ask at work. "Why do I feel guilty when I rest?" "Why do I hate Sunday nights?" Luddlife is for whoever typed it.
We think rest comes first, not after the list, because the list doesn't end. Enough is a place you can stand. A job pays for a life and stays a job. The phone you typed it on can sit in a drawer for an hour. Lazy is what busy people call rest.
Find the one you typed. Each goes to one short story from an ordinary week.
- Why do I feel guilty when I rest?
- My plans got cancelled. What do I do with the evening?
- Why do I hate Sunday nights?
- How do I stop replaying an argument in my head?
- Why can't I sleep for thinking about tomorrow's to do list?
- How do I worry less about things I can't control?
- Why do I keep checking my phone?
- How do I enjoy the little things in life?
- How do I answer "what do you do" without talking about my job?
- How do I reply to an email I ignored for months?
- Why is it easier to talk to strangers?
- How do I do things when I'm scared?
Everything else is in Topics, sorted by what it's about. The free idler's guide, The Long Afternoon, is twelve pages for an afternoon you have spare.