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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]2h / per 2h[/badge]
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Walking. Out of the house. In directions I felt to, sometimes changing my direction twice in 10meters. Stepping in open doors, backyards, a comic store, a T-Shirt store, a piano store, an old Berlin pub. I never have been there before, so I was ordering coffee. Shortly the cementary. Took pictures with iPhone on the way and 1 audio field recording.
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This time the anticipation was not that strong but I was very much looking forward it. It relaxed my faster. I was more joyful and playful, whistling and trying out things, like walking on shadow edges.
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I can give myself calm and luxury with only walking out of the house and aim on nothing. It is so liberating. I did not know this effect and my need before. It is what I call playing with friends. You do not know what comes out of it, you just explore. I walk differently, I look differently.
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Wonderful. Simply wonderful. It framed my day. And gave it meaning, I needed it badly. I was not courageous enough to try it for 30min. But 2h — no problem and addictive. I love it. Wow.
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Please, more. I only explored a bit and it was not enough at all. I see a world, a universe opening up. I feel like being a ghost in a society of people addicted to purpose who do not SEE… 😉
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BEFORE: So excited. Already anticipation made me feel like a rebel in society. Doing nothing being consciously unproductive, counterbalancing the crazy over-production. Wonderful feeling which made me smile and happy already 1h before doing it. I want a walking stick. Irish Blackthorn Walking stick like Alex´s in Clockwork Orange. Or a more graceful one, but one which shows that I am not just „walking“ or „communiting“ but idling.
WHILE: I used an well made long umbrella with a wooden straight handle. It slowed me down and changed my posture, feeling like a nobleman from the turn of the century, walking because he can afford it. It makes you feel rich (in time). I took a lot of time. Searching for „inspiration“ is a danger for doing nothing, because it represents a purpose. Stumbling over inspiration is ok, but the mode of an explorer is already feeling a bit like work. Using the umbrella to pike things (rusty metal door of cemetary, wooden beam, smelling it, too, grabbing a branch of a tree which waved so nicely to shake its hand (leaves)…the tac tic tac of putting it on the pavement reassured me and I tried to do that as gentle as possible but still with confidence.
EFFECT: centering, focusing, gave me the feeling paradoxically to have done/achieved something. It has immediate importance and a joyous anarchist touch. Calming and sharpening senses and raising curiosity even in the most well known areas, around your flat/house; really taking time to watch details, leaves, flowers, trees, textures. like in a trip, like on drugs or fallen from the sky / only watching, not thinking sitting whenever I want / like old men / but I am young and enjoy pure luxury…
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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]2h / per 1h[/badge]
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Sitting in the sun in the park, watching clouds in the sky and their slow metamorphosis, watching birds doing all the silly, useless things…Lying on a mat on the riverside, watching the little waves made by the wind and the bigger waves made by ships slowly cruising by..I try to activate all of my senses and watch my thoughts an keep them calm,… instead the thinking process speeds up…
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Learned that DN is not that easy as I thought it would be.
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Well, I thought that I am already a chillmaster, but in this way it’s a totally new experience for me… realized that I am not so good in doing it really! Nothing.
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This personal experience / experiment is very necessary for my understanding of the topic!
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