The most boring summer of your childhood probably held some of your best memories. Boredom was where the adventures started.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Empty time is where invention happens. With nothing scheduled and nobody entertaining you, boredom eventually shoves you into making something up, and the things you made up are what you still have. A summer that looked like nothing from outside was doing quiet work the whole time.
Protect a few genuinely empty afternoons this season instead of filling every one. Leave the phone charging in another room for an hour and let it get dull. Whatever comes after the dullness is usually the interesting part, and it will not show up while something else holds your attention.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
When you were last truly bored, what did you invent?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- You’ll roll your eyes at your dad’s jokes for twenty years and then catch yourself telling them to your kids.
- Asking the new kid to sit with you at lunch is a thirty-second decision they’ll remember for thirty years.
- The people who seem like they’ll always be around are exactly the ones we forget to check on.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.