Rationalizing Drawing a Blank

Sometimes you have so much to do that the only way your brain can deal with it is to stare blankly into space... and do nothing.

Yeah, I find myself doing that a lot lately. Hehe.. I've even been talking to myself in my head while staring, like a person who has forgotten what comes after one second ago and before the next minute.

"Hey, what do you find so interesting in that piece of air in front of you? Why are you lookin' at it like that? Is something wonderful going to happen? Right there in that little bit of space that you're so fixated on?"

Hey, please don't start sending for the mental assylum retrieval team just yet. I happen to know I'm still within the borders of the clinically "not crazy". You gotta admit, these thoughts are the sanest thoughts you could possibly have when your body is being pulled in numerous different directions at once. Instead of thinking, "OMG!!! I have a deadline tomorrow!! And the day after that!! And I have to do my laundry!! And I have to blah! blah! blah!...," and then suffering from high blood pressure and a nervous breakdown without even being able to finish enumerating the list of things you have to do in your head, indulging in a few seconds of blanking out and saying totally nonsense things to yourself would be much better and safer, and can even be considered as therapeutic as yoga!

So, the next time you let yourself float into those dazed few seconds of blankness and incoherence, don't feel so guilty. Those few seconds might just have saved you your sanity ;)