As Oscar Wilde stated ‘to do nothing at all, is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.... Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.’ (Wilde, 1891)
Now that the weather is getting colder and the tuxedo brothers are finally settling into autumn, Merlin is starting to excel at the virtue of inactivity. Unlike many humans, he doesn’t seem to appear to have any issues with tolerating extended periods of idleness. With no care in the world, there appears to be no need for Merlin to busy himself; to actively preoccupy his consciousness, in order to distract it from possible unwanted thoughts and feelings. ‘Living in the moment,’ is his motto and ‘dolce far niente (the sweetness of doing nothing),’ his philosophy. He excels at being a cat, and so should you every now and then, human!
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