Sometimes it is important to do nothing

Just as a breath must be drawn in before it can be exhaled, so it is sometimes necessary to withdraw into oneself before one can be creative. Sometimes it is important to do nothing, so that something may eventually come forth.

Howard Schwartz, from "The Contraction of God"
http://www.parabola.org/magazine/current_foc.php4

I don't feel like doing anything . Can I allow myself to do nothing ? How long can I go on like this ? It is actually scary, because I feel I could go on forever and forever .. and then what will become of me ? Nothing will get done . But hang on .. is that so ? All things come to an end .. and so does doing nothing. It is not actually doing nothing. I am deluding myself - because here I am typing , writing , thinking .... the need to write. It would be very hard for me not to write ; not to read; not to watch TV or listen to music.