Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 25, 2018

It takes a lot of experience to become good at doing nothing.

You don’t really understand that when you’re a little kid, though… largely because most of your life, everyone’s been telling you to sit down and shut up!

Back then, before smartphones, there wasn’t as much to do unlike now

That’s Hobbes way of saying “Hakuna Matata”!

We’re busy doin’ nothin’

Workin’ the whole day through

Tryin’ to find lots of things not to do

We’re busy goin’ nowhere

Isn’t it just a crime

We’d like to be unhappy, but

We never do have the time

Disney.

Yup! unexciting can be fun!

Use that famous imagination

That place, Hobbs, is where ideas are born.

The older you get, the more you appreciate naps.

It was a great day when I realized I no longer had to try to relax…..I just relax.

Calvin needs a sibling. Now wouldn’t THAT be interesting???

Ever since I was a tiny boy

I don’t want no candy

I don’t need toy

I took a stick and an old coffee can

I bang on that thing ’til I got

Blisters on my hand

Because

I don’t want to work

I want to bang on the drum all day

I don’t want to play

I just want to bang on the drum all day

I do that a lot at work, think and look, and hopefully wake up before the boss walks in!

Any turnip can “just be”. I prefer a more active life.

Hobbs is echoing a sentiment emblazoned on a tee-shirt given to me upon my retirement. “I’m not really lazy. I just really enjoy doing nothing!” So true, so true. (sigh)

I don’ like doing nothing. And looking at the sky watching clouds isn’t doing nothing. Thunder, gotta log off!

Went to the lake today!