Permission to Do Nothing From The Wisdom Of 'The Worm Forgives the Plough'

The days are getting longer again.

I know we’re all carrying a lot right now. The world keeps spinning faster, demanding more, asking us to keep up with everything and everyone.

But here’s something different to read today. Something simple. Something that reminded me why the sun on your face still matters more than most of what we’re chasing.

I found this passage in a book called “The Worm Forgives the Plough,” and it warmed my heart. Not because it’s profound or revolutionary—but because it’s so beautifully ordinary.

Sitting In The Sun-The Passage

To sit in the sun. This is still one of the greatest life experiences of life...And it is free...

At the chosen moment I lay down, curled up and closed my eyes while the sun shone upon my face. Often a strong chilly wind blew, but it didn’t come near me, I received only the sun.

Then I entered my own special simple paradise...

Let the world outside carry on, I would say let them dash hither and thither, let them kill one another wholesale, let them go to hell, I wrapped in the embrace of Nature and filled with peace and love!

And like any dog, like any savage, I lay there enjoying myself, harming no man, selling nothing, competing not at all, thinking no evil, smiled upon the sun, bent over by the trees and softly folded in the arms of the earth.

That’s it.

No productivity hack. No self-optimization strategy. No five-step framework for better living.

Just a reminder that lying in the sun is still free. Still one of the greatest experiences available to us. Still worth doing.

The sun is coming back. The days are getting longer.

Maybe that’s enough good news for today.