All the seemingly aimless activity eventually throws us into a tailspin.
If you want what you want when you want it and what you want is a real, no-kidding, quality partner and when you want it is now (or yesterday before noon) instead of five years from now or never, then you don't want to confuse aimless social activity with social productivity.
Meanwhile, underneath all this aimless, half-hysterical activity, your mind struggles to detect the underlying patterns in the surf.
"Her words remind us of walking's simple joy... and return us to a time when an aimless contemplative stroll was a daily activity," Sandra Mardefeld said here last year.
He discusses his favourite museums, too, but for White, "Paris lives in the details" – the kind of things you only discover through the random wandering this city invented, "that aimless Parisian compromise between laziness and activity known as flânerie".
Like any aimless high-schooler in the 2000s, my activities were pretty much limited to smoking weed, binge-watching pirated movies and TV, and droning through MMOs and old video games.
But the activities themselves are weakly conceived: an aimless shuffling of objects, a limbering of joints.
One behavioral manifestation of dementia is wandering which includes checking, trailing, aimless walking, walking directed towards an inappropriate purpose, excessive activity, and attempts to leave the house" [ 8] and is estimated in 20 25% of community-dwelling dementia patients [ 9, 10].
Schopenhauer railed against the aimless nibbling of peanuts and potato chips while one engaged in other activities.
Whatever combination of activities you choose, make sure to leave enough time — make it your Monday plan — for aimless wandering.
