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| Don't think about the bathroom, think about this pretty flower. |
Apologies for the biological references, that's how real life is.
I used to think of my "potty" time as time completely wasted. Here I am, sitting on the pot, while the day passes. Tic, tock, tic.
But now I spend at least half that time meditating on the humility of the human condition. This is not prompted by any particular intestinal issues, I am mostly okay in that department, but more by the fact that I have intestines at all. And that is definitely not time wasted.
I asked G-d, "Lord why did you make us so lowly?" But then I realized that most humans do not in fact embrace what is to me our objective reality. In fact they think damn well of themselves, or of humanity in general, or both. Lots of people think they are the hot stuff, forgetting the One who gave them all they have. They are the big man on campus, the big cheese. They are the shit.
I think of Romania's Nicolae Ceaușescu, who I am sure went to his firing squad in utter astonishment. "You can't do this to me, I'm the boss! I'm the king!" I wonder if Biden is feeling somewhat of the same thing. You can't do this to me, I am in charge. I'm the Man!
In fact they and we are all like a child in a school play who put on a crown to play King Lear or someone, and refused to take it off after. All human glory is fleeting, and all kings play the fool sooner or later. Whether we are the king of a country or the kings of our little worlds or our own personal screenplay in life, we all get shown up in the end.
From dust we came; to dust we shall return.
So anyway, that's how I have come to value my obligatory down time. 
