Please Stop for a Moment and Do Nothing

As Wordsworth has said “World is too much with us”, meaning thereby ‘the world is suffering from problems not because we are doing nothing but we are doing too much.’ This situation made me to choose J.B. Priestley's essay ‘On doing nothing.’ The writer and his friend does not do anything and according to them they are right but people like Mr. Selfridge put a mark of idleness on them. The idea of Priestley of doing nothing actually means something different. As he writes for doing nothing you should have something. On the other hand, we have Pablo Neruda's poem ‘Keeping Quiet’ which is also putting forward the similar idea but in a unique way. The poet is telling us to count up to twelve and just be keep quiet for that single moment and that moment will be an exotic moment. Why it will be an exotic moment? Will something change in that moment? There is a vein of indifference in both the texts which seems to be different and that makes it necessary to compare them.