The couch is comfortable because it asks nothing of you. That’s also why it gives nothing back.

Comfort and exchange are related. Something that demands nothing of you also has nothing to give back, because whatever you get out of anything is roughly what you put in and the couch accepts no deposits. That is fine for an hour and strange as a whole evening. The ease is real and the emptiness afterwards is also real.

Notice which kinds of rest actually restore you and which just pass time. Keep the first. For one evening, swap the second for something that asks a little: a walk, a game with people, forty minutes of the thing you keep meaning to do.