I feel I'm not alone in feeling like if you're not working on something productive, you're dying a small death. Each moment could be something new, but if you're doing what I've been doing the past two weeks (playing EVE Online), those moments are dying and you'll never get them back, is what it feels like.

Is it healthy to think a little bit of this, to try and get motivation, or is it all bad? I wonder if my avoidance of seriously working on code is due to some kind of burnout from months of thinking like this, but I don't feel particularly re-energized from my break, mostly just guilt.

What do you do you personally do when you don't feel like coding? What kind of feelings do you get when you aren't actively working?