When you’re navel-gazing, your eyes are off the prize. Instead, you’re peering into that dark abyss at your midsection, ogling the lint that has accumulated.
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines navel-gazing as “useless or excessive self-contemplation”. Really, it’s a prolonged inspection of lint.
Keeping a clean navel is good hygiene. But if you spend too long scrutinizing the lint, then you’re just goofing off. Or more destructively, you’re thinking of all the ways you failed to prevent the lint from getting there in the first place.
Don’t just stare at it. Get busy removing the strange collection of fuzz.
Now your belly button is clean. Get your eyes back on the prize. And smile. You’re lint-free!