Cazzeggio

The Italian slangy word “cazzeggio” means being up to no good. One may hang around alone or with company thinking to be having fun but being at “cazzeggio”. What's good? It's good when I talk with a friend about something interesting, or when I go out at night - but even by day - being willing to know someone, and things like these. To cut the long story short it's good when I do something useful to make me a better person. All the rest is “cazzeggio”. It is for example when I surf the web searching nothing just to be up to something, or when I walk the central street of my town with some other people looking around, again with no precise goal.
But the point is that everybody should know when they are at “cazzeggio” and where they are not. Because the “cazzeggio” is not a crime or something bad if you know that you're up to it, but it's an offense to oneself when one does nothing good thinking to be up to something or thinking that life is all about doing that, because all the rest is unknown.
Mostly, nightlife in Southern Europe and specially in Italy is thus “cazzeggio”, as well as it is in any posh or snobby environment, whether it is in US, Sweden, Japan or up on the Moon. Because when people go out to show off, endeavouring to appear better than the others and stand for instance in a club waiting to be stared at, it's no good. Going to a club or on holiday in close-up groups of acquaintances, making taugh to know strangers is no good as well. In Italy I've got something like 3 new friends in 3 years. Three. Because they were introduced in the group as friends of friends. In Sweden, where I used to hang out with lots of groups of open-minded and friendly people, I got to know hundreds of guys and gals and I've got rather many new friends I am still in touch with.
Social life in Italy is mostly – not only but mostly – cazzeggio. I removed the quotation marks because you know the word by now. Italians have got even a word for it... surprised?