The Stand

my class was assigned a standing experiment for six minutes. during this standing experiment i did not really notice anything significant except the fact that i was standing still, my feet planted on the ground and it irritated me quite a lot. in school and out, i'm either walking or sitting in a comfortable position or always doing something. i guess i have not taken notice when i stand still. one thing i noticed was that my balance was sort of uneven as well. i also noticed most of the people around me struggled to focus on standing still. my shoes felt glued to the floor yet i was still a little wobbly, as if standing still, breathing, and relaxing was an unnatural thing to do. i believe it was a challenging experiment which is sad to say since physically it's a very easy and doable task. even the simple things like standing still in one place can sometimes feel unfamiliar.

we live in a fast paced society and we have grown accustom to getting everything done and rushing through it; not really noticing how we feel since relaxing seens so foreign and new.

i defininitely notice how nice it is to relax but i am so caught up with wanting to do something that the stand experiment made me feel uncomfortable. like i wanted to sit down and write and do forty thousand things at once knowing it takes much more effort and energy, but i realized i prefered this over standing still for six minutes because i've grown accustom to doing it. i think in the future, for my own benefit i will pay more attention to when i'm not doing anything and enjoy my muscles being relaxed. i feel like if i do that i will have more insight with both realms of our society: the working and the relaxing since most of us are oblivious to the latter and don't absorb the feeling.