I made a joke ...
About what to tell people, when you want to fit in.
Because, saying you sat down and watched the swallows, maybe for hours, isn’t taken by the majority of people in our western society, very well.
Most people may even tell you straight in the face you are lazy and don’t contribute.
But what if you tell them you are meditating? Than they see you, like you must be busy like crazy and they even going to think, you’ll write a book soon, too.
In my experience it is often no joke?
We became so blind and fed with stories about what “good behavior” should look like, that in the society as I experience it, if you be truly honest, you become even more of an outcast.