READING RESPONSE WEEK 10 ASSIGNMENT 1

What stuck with me when reading through How to Do Nothing was the quote “Look back in memory and consider… How many have robbed you of life when you were not aware of what you were losing, how much was taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements of society, how little of yourself was left to you; you will perceive that you are dying before your season!” I have felt this way plenty of times. When you waste time and sulk in something you can’t even change. It seems like the end of the world but what can you really do? This stuck with me because I could really have done something productive or something that was going to actually benefit me but instead I just sat there wasting my time. Wasting away my life. Or even being happy over something foolish. You can’t help yourself but it just makes you laugh. Then you’re left there like an idiot when you come down from the high. Every feeling like that is useless and worthless. Kind of a depressing thought but something that needs to be thought of so I don’t ever make that mistake again.