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by AnimalMuppet 1054 days ago
It's only procrastination if you have other things that you should be doing, and you are not getting those things done in a timely manner.

For this next minute, choosing to do anything means choosing against all the other possible things you could do with that minute. You could be working out, learning a new coding language, learning Swahili, learning how to cook, learning how to paint... (Fill in the things that you have at least some degree of interest in doing.)

But there's nothing wrong in not doing any of those things in this minute. There is also value in just stopping, and doing something you find relaxing, fun, interesting on its own (as opposed to interesting for the value it could bring you later). There's a balance here. Yes, invest in your future. And yes, take some time for "not working on the future" now.