Boredom. It  is my least tolerable of emotions. Even anger and frustration seem easier. In fact, I often shift boredom into one of these emotions just to relieve the feel of it.

Why is boredom so intolerable? Is it because it feels like such a waste of the day? That there is something “out there” amazing and great, and I am not taking part in it.  Is it because what I am right now is not enough? That I must do something to prove I am enough. That I need excitement to prove that life is valuable.

What would it look like if I fully embraced boredom? Wouldn’t it be great just to sit and not feel the need to do anything? Isn’t this what contentment feels like?

“Boredom: The desire for desires.”

~Leo Tolstoy

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