"We don’t always need to be useful; it’s good to simply enjoy yourself. In our society, as in Zhuangzi’s, (the ancient Daoist masterpiece attributed to Zhuang Zhou, c369-286 BCE) usefulness is often presented as the measuring rod, the bottom line against which we should gauge all policies and life decisions. Zhuangzi shows that this mindset traps us in a calculus in which we end up seeing ourselves and people around us as a means to an end. This prevents us from enjoying our own lives, and the things around us, on their own terms."  - Helen De Cruz & Pauline Lee

Article: How to be Useless