sit with your boredom.

Welcome to the Slow Morning Newsletter, a weekly letter where I share slow living resources and insight into my personal journey.

When was the last time you were bored? A boredom so boring you truly did not know what to do with yourself? Boredom is subjective, so some of you may be able to answer this promptly. But a follow-up question: When was the last time you were bored and did not fill your boredom void with mindless scrolling?

For many, I imagine the answer to that follow-up being: Never.

For those my age and older, you may recollect a nostalgic time where scrolling was simply not an option for your boredom woes. You sat with it. Disassociated Stared at the wall for a while. Twiddled your thumbs (is this a dead phrase now?).

I ask these questions because, funnily enough, I saw a TikTok video about taking our time with little daily rituals like reading, brewing coffee, meditating. And one of the top comments was: I don’t know how to put my phone down.

It got me thinking. Do I know how to put my phone down? Do we, as a society, know how to put our phones down? Ultimately, do we have a problem with accepting, embracing, sitting with our boredom, thus becoming reliant on our phones to fill the boredom void?

There’s plenty more questions to unearth as we peruse the topic of boredom, but let’s go back to nostalgia for a moment.

In some of the most boring moments of my life, I found myself disassociating through a lot of it, sure, but I also found myself getting outrageously creative. Examining placements of images and sentence structures and fonts on a magazine page advert. Inventing games, problem-solving scenarios, mythical creatures in the clouds. Playing with oil pastels and chalky colored pencils. Learning through it all.

I miss this life season of play. And yes, we were younger, there were less pressures of bills needing to be paid. But as society descends into the pursuit of filling the boredom void, we are losing what’s left of play time. Creative spaces. The dwindling pockets of joy and expression that require our efforts to preserve, especially as work slyly simultaneously steals more of this time.

This is an invitation to sit with your boredom. Embrace its discomfort. Welcome and support what comes from this intentional practice. Find comfort in knowing that truly fulfilling moments come from rituals you put effort into, even especially if that means being bored every once in a while.

slow living archives.

a cozy hobby vlog - paint blueberries with me.
living slowly and creatively this spring - five ways to blend slow and creative living.
a corporate 9-5 morning routine - realistic while maintaining mindfulness.

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