Dec 05, 2025 | 12:05 PM
Trivia Question
A: Over the years many of us have lost this ability and it’s absence is preventing us from being our true selves and is robbing us of our natural creativity. What is it?
A: Boredom
We are constantly distracted and have no time to go within. It is always about the external and distractions.
The problem is not that boredom strikes too often, but that it is never allowed to fully arrive. Boredom, which has paradoxically seen a rise in countries drowning in technology like the US, is shameful. It is treated like an illness almost. We avoid it, hate it, fear it.
Digital life and its many platforms offer streams of micro-distractions that prevent immersion into this more primitive attunement. Restlessness is redirected into scrolling, which, instead of meaningful reflection, produces only more scrolling. What disappears with boredom is not leisure, but metaphysical access — the silence in which the world might speak, and one might hear.