Go shopping for nothing

That is not a restriction. That is the entire pleasure of it.

Think about how you usually shop. There is a list, a purpose, a budget, a household that needs something, and you move through the store efficiently because efficiency is how you have always done it.

Somewhere inside all that logistics, an ordinary pleasure went missing. The pleasure of looking at interesting things with no obligation to decide anything.

So this weekend, go somewhere full of objects you find interesting, with no intention of buying a single one.

A plant nursery, where you can walk the rows and read the little tags and touch the leaves. An antique shop, where every shelf holds somebody's abandoned story.

A fabric store, where the whole point is texture and color. A hardware store, if that happens to be your particular pleasure, with its drawers of small precise things.

A good bookstore, a kitchen supply shop, a record shop. Whatever category of object your attention drifts toward when nobody is watching.

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Walk slowly. Pick things up. Read the labels for no reason whatsoever.

Notice what draws you, because that is the real purpose of the outing. Your preferences answer fast when you hand them a room full of options and no decision to make.

You may want things. Let yourself want them without buying them, which is both a skill and a pleasure.

Wanting is not a problem that requires a purchase to solve. Sometimes it is only your own taste waking up and stretching.

Then leave with empty hands and a much clearer sense of what you like. That is worth an hour of your Saturday. It belongs to the same family as going to the movies alone. An outing with nobody to accommodate.

Pick the shop that matches your particular curiosity, the nursery or the antique store or the fabric aisle, and give it forty-five minutes. Bring no list and no plan to buy. Walk slowly and let yourself look.

Today, notice what your eyes go to when you are not shopping for anyone. The thing you glance at twice is telling you something about your own taste.

Hit reply and tell me what it was. I read them.

See you Monday.