It is amazing to get those rare moments when I get to do nothing. I do cherish those times and at my age, I don't really care what other people may think. I had a father who hated me sitting around doing "nothing". He would find plenty of work to keep me busy...
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I also grew up with parents who felt that "idling" was pretty much akin to wasting life. As my mother would often say — if I came into the kitchen to see what she was doing — "if you can LEAN, you can CLEAN!"
And I learned to be very careful about how I replied to my dad if he found me idling... if I said nothing in response to "What are you doing?", chances are he'd send me off to mow the lawn or rake leaves.
As I have aged, I also find that I have strived to remove as many things as possible from my surroundings that require me to attend to them all the time. There's a lot of stuff I just don't need, and maintaining that stuff amounts to little more than busy work.