Everyone talks about the Ides of March on the 15th, but did you know that March 22nd is “National and International Goof Off Day”?
Now here’s a celebration we can all get behind and participate in. And to make
matters ever better, it’s on Friday of
this year!
What do I plan to do? Glad you asked. I’m goofing off.
I plan to leave all my writer obligations, ideas, and tasks that
are always hammering at me in the back of my brain and find activities that
qualify as fun, not difficult, deemed enjoyable—and which are mindless. So that leaves out the frustrating game of
golf. It also leaves out reading since I get carried away to a new world when I
read, and often I find myself plowing through the book, reading nonstop, to
find out how the story ends. Thus, reading is hardly mindless in my way of
thinking.
I could clean the house. That’s as mindless as it gets, but
it certainly isn’t enjoyable. Someone suggested sitting quietly in a chair in a
Zen-like state and meditating. It would only be a possibility if I could sit still that
long. Over an hour of a vacuum-like state, and I’d need anti-anxiety medication
to deal with the inactivity and silence.
Someone suggested relaxing and making a to-do list. Are you
kidding me? What a way to go bonkers. What part of that activity is relaxing? I’d sit in nervous anxiety, chewing the
eraser off my pencil, as the list grows and the urge to be knocking off some of
the tasks on the stupid list grows exponentially.
I could try driving aimlessly around the town, but every time
I do that, I see new things. Then, I have the impulse to want to take careful note
of the scene and stuff my mind with details for possible use in my writing. And, the idea is to leave the writing world
behind for a day, shut down the brain, and goof off.
If you have any thoughts and opinions for goofing off on
March 22nd, I’m open to suggestions. Leave a comment and I’ll consider them. Oh, wait—if I have to analyze your comments, that is not
goofing off.
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