Would you do absolutely nothing with strangers in Lumphini Park?

There are few things harder to put in a diary than nothing at all. Doing nothing sounds easy, the easiest thing in the world, until you actually try it, and within ninety seconds your hand creeps towards your phone, your brain starts quietly drafting an email you don't even need to send and there you are again, being useful, being productive, being exactly the sort of person modern life demands. Switching that off takes practice. It takes nerve. It takes, of all things, a calendar invite.

So here comes 'Sit and Stare Without Doing Anything', a magnificently pointless hour that asks precisely one thing of you. Sit down. Stare at the sky, or the grass, or the middle distance. Just you, a quiet corner of Lumphini Park and the faintly radical thrill of contributing absolutely nothing to the national GDP.

The Commons & Bonfire crew run the whole gentle affair, and their pitch lands somewhere between wellness and quiet rebellion. Rest your frazzled mind. Escape the screen that's been following you since breakfast. Detox from the unrelenting pressure to optimise, achieve, hustle. Resist capitalism for sixty glorious minutes by gazing at the clouds like a Victorian poet with nowhere in particular to be. Whatever drags you there, you're warmly invited to come and do gloriously little in good company.

Schedule

• First 30 minutes: sit quietly and do nothing.
• Last 30 minutes: linger and chat about how the nothing felt.

That's the event. That's the whole thing.

July 4, 5pm-6pm, Lumphini Park. The exact meeting spot inside the park surfaces closer to the day, so follow @commonsandbonfire for the drop, add it to your calendar here and join the LINE group here. 

In a city this loud, an hour of deliberate, unbothered stillness might just be the most worthwhile thing you do all week.