Doing Nothing

Today at lunch I stood up, halfway through the period, and proceeded to do nothing. I stood near the edge of my lunch table, where my friends sat eating, and merely stared ahead. At first no one noticed what I was doing, and continued to eat their lunches. After awhile a few of the students I had been sitting with noticed my absence, and I explained to them my assignment. But aside from my friends, no one else seemed to mind what I was doing. A few glances were thrown in my direction, but no one really cared why I was standing purposeless in the middle of The Point. Everyone around me was busy, chatting with friends, scarfing down lunches, or scrambling to finish homework. If they noticed what I was doing at all, it didn't matter to them, because they had more important tasks at hand. I know if I was in their place I would have reacted the same way. We are all so busy, especially at Stevenson, and are always rushing to make the most of our time. Although people may briefly have wondered what I was doing, they were not troubled about it enough to get up and approach me. They remained in their own worlds, absorbed in their friends and their lives, and uncaring about what was happening around them. Sure, the experiment showed me that teenagers can often be oblivious to the world around them, but it also showed me a group of students having fun and enjoying themselves, trying their best to make the most of their time in high school.