What does it taste like?

I was just casually texting a friend and both of us just wanted to take a break and do absolutely nothing. That simple conversation triggered a question in my mind, that how does 'doing nothing' fix things? Does it actually work?

Then I went back to thinking about the instances where doing nothing fixed things for me, well fixed is the wrong term 'sort' should be the term. I realized that all this works on a demand vs supply mechanism. When things get monotonous for us, we tend to get away from the monotony, but don't really know whether we want to come back to it or not. Hence, we work towards deprivation or deviation. We try to deviate ourselves from that one thing which is causing monotony in our lives. We enjoy the change, sometimes love it. But after some time maybe we want to come back to our regular routine, or maybe not. If former is the case, then we are just bored and need a break, but if latter is the case then we may need to change the direction as whatever 'monotonous' stuff we were doing was maybe not we actually ever wanted to do and have still not developed a liking for same.

Basically, we mentally cut down the supply of regular stuff and create a demand for same. If the demand is not back, then we should understand that we had a surplus supply of something which we never needed at the first place and then decide how to deal with it.

Drawing a parallel to what I tried to explain above, I would just quote an incident. One of my friends was on a strict no-sugar diet. She had been able to gracefully pull it off for 3 months straight and was proud of it. But there are times when we lose control over our emotions or give up to our cravings. It was one of those days for her, she was upset at the lunch table because her presentation had not gone well. Just to change the topic I offered her the sweet of the day which used to be her favourite. I knew she would refuse as usual, but I never gave up on trying to break her no-sugar diet. To my surprise, she accepted it that day and placed whole of the sweet in her mouth at once. I thought maybe she is reacting in annoyance, but she had closed her eyes right after placing it in her mouth. We could observe her slowly chewing it and her frown turning into a smile. When she opened her eyes, I questioned her 'What does it taste like?', she could barely speak because her mouth was full, but the twinkle in her eyes had my answer.

Those were just my thoughts, let me know your thoughts about why and how do we break the monotony?