I told my travel buddy I wanted to 'just sit by the ocean and do nothing.' We drove for two hours. I sat down. I watched a seagull fight a tourist for a pretzel. I watched a family argue over whose turn it was to hold the baby. I watched a man rebuild a sandcastle for the ninth time while the wave erased it, each rebuild more aggressive than the last. My buddy said, 'You wanted to do nothing. You did nothing. You just witnessed a lot of other people doing something.'