After you have done that, learn to do nothing. I may say in advance that for one who shares my temperament it is one of the hardest of all lessons to learn. Many years ago when I was in Baltimore, a friend of mine was a very successful businesswoman. She said that the only time she really rested was when she was taking a trip on a train, and I asked her to explain that in a little more detail, for a long train trip often tires me if only from boredom. Just as we try to drive the automobile from the back seat, and make all the decisions and share all the ones that are made, even if we resist the temptation to criticize him and put on the brake even though someone else is running the car, we cannot sit back and let him run it.
Some people have to learn how to drop the things about which they can do nothing.
But you continue to do it in the long night watches. You have to learn to drop it, to do nothing. To thee the Spring will be a harvest-time. To thee the Spring shall be a triple morn. And yet my song comes native with the warmth.