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Mindfulness
Boredom Is an Unlikely but Powerful Anchor Into the Present Moment
It guides you into seeing the fullness hidden within empty moments.
One day I noticed I had a habit of filling empty moments with anything I could find.
The cue to do that was usually from feeling bored. This got me wondering what boredom is and why it manifests.
So I experimented with it by sitting on the back porch with nothing but a cup of tea. I had no phone, music, book… nothing at all. Just me and this empty moment.
Boredom crept in, and when it did, I watched it. I was trying to understand why it had arrived without immediately acting on it.
Introspection gets me curious and so it didn’t take long for me to start asking a lot of questions that looked something like these:
Does every moment need to be filled with something?
I don’t know about you, but when silence finds me, I reach for the nearest thing that makes “noise”.
It can be music, reading, games, tv, scrolling social media land, or study & research, but it’s always something.
