Boredom might be the thing we need most right now.
You know that feeling you get before the work week starts?
Or that feeling you get when your kids go to sleep so you doom scroll for 4 hours just to get “some of your time back”.
The feeling of time slipping through your fingers no matter how tightly you grasp. Things simply won't stay still.
Have you ever seen what happens when you just stare at this doom? Maybe even sit there quietly and ponder on it? That’s boredom. And ironically, it's when I get my best ideas.
As a lover of patterns, I’ve started to take note of when my lighting strikes. It's never when I'm doing the thing that's supposed to inspire me like scroll through all of the apps to find little moments that spark anything in me (they never do) just to see if an idea arrives (it never does). It’s usually when I'm bored out of my mind, unable to distract myself from the boredom that’s making me go…in my mind?
I think this is the ultimate capitalism take back. We’re so used to earning our time that when we have it we act like we’re at the casino, time burns a hole in our pockets. What if we acted as if we had allll the time. As If we had so much time, we could afford to be bored. I think rich people call it meditating.
If capitalism is the game, let's learn how to play.
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