Potato is yum

I’m not exactly the best student out there. Everyone that knows me probably knows how laid back I am. Being relaxed doesn’t mean I don’t try to optimize. Optimize? Optimize what? Everything. Optimize my time. Optimize my food. Optimize my fun. Optimize my optimization. Optimize. Optimize until I don’t have a speck of waste.

Now Optimize doesn’t mean I didn’t have fun. Quite the opposite in fact. Optimization could be a reason to have fun since I would need a break to be optimal. So it’s necessary to play video games or watch youtube for four hours in order for me to maintain my “mental health”. Right?

Yeah. No. That’s not what mental health is. So why am I even writing this? Well. Because to hell with optimization. To hell with mental health. To hell with all of it. It doesn’t matter. People say to meditate and focus on the present. That’s great if it works. But, it still doesn’t solve the heart of the issue. The issue of trying to “make the most” out of “something”.

After I got stuck in the hospital and wasn’t able to go to school, go to work, go to the gym, do anything, I realized how much optimization was ruining my life. You don’t have to do anything. Meditation is just a blueprint for doing nothing with extra steps for those that can’t wrap their head around the idea of doing nothing. Doing nothing is okay. I meditated and found it did nothing because I was still trying to optimize my meditation. It sounds stupid because it is. So here’s my tip.

Do nothing.