Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found. We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness. .Lygia Fagundes Telles
About This Quote
The quote above is from the play "Romeo and Juliet" written by William Shakespeare. In this quote, he was saying that you should try to do things that don't have a goal in mind. He also said that you need to love the useless. A lot of people in our society try to do things like be successful in business and go to college.
Shakespeare was saying that we need to put our time and energy into things that make us happy but don't require us to be successful or make it in the business world. We need to develop talents and talents don't always have a purpose. Some people may think of various ways in which they can use their talent for their own benefit such as writing books, playing music, singing, etc.
Some people feel that there is no point in doing something if it isn't going to help them later on in life or if it isn't going to make them money. To Shakespeare, there is beauty in uselessness. He says that there is beauty in doing things for no reason other than the pure fun of it because sometimes we can create beautiful things out of nothing at all.
Source: Ciranda De Pedra
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