A day of being not doing

Every week I take a day of stillness or a day of being me. I don't turn the computer on, I make no appointments, I do no chores, I resist the temptation to do things. I've had to re-learn over the years the importance of just 'being'. As we grow up there's a constant expectation for us to do stuff. We spend a decade or so at school in training to do one thing after another. Then we grow up and we are so centred on accumulating wealth, success, power, sex, food and material posessions. We seem to be 'human doings' not 'human beings'. It's tough in these times because society and the media also convinces us that we need to do and get things to survive. And when we have it all we aren't happy so then we believe we need more and more. It's been challenging to slow down and come back to just being, but I keep practising as I feel more and more joy entering my life.