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The importance of wasting time ⛹🏻.
<p>There are days where I sit on my bed for hours, with my phone in my hand, scrolling, sometimes looking at the ceiling, doing absolutely nothing. No productivity. No plan. No sense. And for the longest time, I felt guilty about that. Like I was failing in life, others were moving and I was just stocked at a place.</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/file_00000000048061f98f99a31e24df3562.png"/><br/></p><p>But I've come to realize something, that those quiet moments were discovery and realization for me. That "wasted" moment was what I actually needed to be here.</p><p><br/></p><p>Chill I'll tell you something....</p><p><br/></p><p>When we were children, those moments of running barefoot from one street to another. Peeping through Mama Jide's window to watch TV. Just because we didn't have. Or maybe we had, but .......</p><p>  " UP NEPA" our chorus when light is restored.</p><p>Washing our uniforms at the last minute, just to put it on. Believing it will get dried on our body .</p><p>Not doing our assignments, because we played and forgot. </p><p>Waiting for that one friend every morning, so you could go to school together.</p><p>They weren't just random moments, they were our first lessons of "wasting" time beautifully .</p><p>We weren't trying to be productive, we were just living.</p><p>And somehow in the noise and supposed nonsense, we found stories that we are still telling today .</p><p><br/></p><p> In some moments of doing nothing, I've cried and laughed, remembered and buried. </p><p>I've had random thoughts that led to me writing poems and articles.</p><p>I've found peace that productivity could never give.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe we've been thought to fear silence. To label rest as laziness. To label anything that doesn't have a result as failure. To finalize bare failure as a broken future.</p><p>Wasting time sometimes is the the most human things we do, it reminds us that we are not machines ( LoL even machines breakdown).</p><p><span style='background-color: transparent; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><br/></span></p><p><span style='background-color: transparent; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'>So yes!.</span><span style='background-color: transparent; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'> </span></p><p><span style='background-color: transparent; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'>W</span><span style='background-color: transparent; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'>aist time. Genuinely. Watch the ceiling fan spin. Talk to yourself. Laugh out loud, so they call you crazy. Don't fold those clothes because you don't feel like. Forget to reply to that friend!. Double text them. Skip that class. Think about that Lover for 23 hours. Feel ashamed. Be embarrassed. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Trek instead of entering a cab.</span></p><p><span style='background-color: transparent; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'>Sit outside and watch the unseen breeze.</span></p><p>Dream. Stay clean. Stay healthy.</p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">And</span><span style='background-color: transparent; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'> don't forget to breathe.</span></p><p><br/></p>
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The importance of wasting time ⛹🏻.
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