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+\clas{AP Lang}
+\name{Holden} \last{Rohrer}
+\prof{Jones}
+\header
+\title{Quick Write 5: Is ``doing nothing'' a good use of your time?}
+
+In the most concrete sense, doing nothing wastes time, definitionally.
+Almost always, one could complete another task in the same duration, so to do nothing is to neglect that task.
+But human psychology and physiology don't corroborate this simple idea.
+Instead, sleep or rest (a necessary ``doing nothing'' component of daily life) reinvigorate to make up for their own ``poor use of time.''
+But what's commonly meant by ``doing nothing'' isn't sleep; as discoveries about the value of sleep continue to rise, proponents of ``sleep less, work more'' dwindle.
+Instead, opponents of unproductiveness and inefficiency manage their time so as to maximize working time---considering leisure to be the greatest waste of time.
+
+Modern life affords a number of easy leisure activities, mostly digital, comprising movies, television, and mindless social media scrolling.
+All of these are seen as a waste of time because of their opportunity cost, but their role in maintaining restfulness is notable: to do any of these is to rest because one is mostly inactive.
+And, of course, one could be doing something ``productive'' in the same time, but it is critical to recognize the value of breaks, at minimum.
+``Down-time'' (a time in which to do nothing) contributes to the overall efficiency of any person, so leisure must be considered valuable by those most willing to stifle it.
+
+In fact, a more disciplined form of inactivity is practiced by some of the most successful people in the world: meditation.
+The sense of relaxation meditation synthesises is far greater than any of the easy leisure activities listed above, and for good reason.
+Doing nothing, in its purest form, is a good use of time in the same way that sleep is a good use of time.
+And in its more common, relaxed forms, doing nothing has many of the same benefits---if those are only because of the absence of stressful work.
+
+\bye