Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 13, 2020

I’d rather be doing several other things. But not necessarily all at once. Well, not all  of them all at once anyhow.

Caulfield has just articulated the mantra of the unchallenged young.

To rather be or not be rather be? that is the conundrum!

I’m doing what I’d rather be doing!

“I sits there for hours,

developin’ my powers

a figurin’ how flowers gets tall

If I had my druthers

I’d druther have my druthers

than anything else at all. "

—Li’l Abner

I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say “I’d rather be doing nothing.” Not very common at all.

That attitude is sad and more than a little ADD. I am not going all Pollyanna and say I can always say there is nothing I would rather be doing, but sometimes I am doing the exact activity that I want to do and would not choose to stop to do something else. To say I’d rather be doing something else is a common state is the greener grass fallacy.

I’d rather be doing anything else!

I’d rather be doing what I want.

In French we have an expression : “faire oeuvre utile”. Litterally, to do useful labour. Meaning get busy doing something that makes you feel useful and that helps your fellow human, if you are fortunate enough to be in that position. Win-win…

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Frazz17 hrs · I’m used to being embarrassed by my weather predictions when I do my strips in advance. But I didn’t really predict my strip about doing nothing would come out the day after so many people in so many places were told to change a lot of their plans from doing whatever they were going to be doing to not doing it.Somehow I think a lot of anything anybody did in advance is going to look a little off for a while.