It's Okay to Do Nothing

It’s Okay to Do Nothing

by Elizabeth C. Haynes

Maybe sometimes it’s okay to do nothing.

To just exist, to be,
Like the animals and the plants and the dirt and the sky.

To take in the world around you,
And tend to your essential physical needs.
Your eating, your sleeping, your hydration.
And to also tend to your emotional needs
by doing…
Not much.

To let yourself rest all the way through, this time.
Not just amidst the fog of dreams that evaporate with the morning sun,
When your skin and vessels and organs wake from their repair.
But to rest your mind, your spirit, your essence
Rebuilding their resilience against the tribulations of life, because

You’ve finally given yourself permission to be.