The empty field may be full of activity your way of looking has not learned yet.

Emptiness is often just untrained attention. A field looks like nothing much until someone who knows birds or grasses stands next to you, and then the same square of ground turns out to be crowded. What changed was not the field. Most of what you find dull is dull because you have not yet been given the categories that would let you see into it.

Pick something you have written off as boring and spend twenty minutes learning its vocabulary. Names are the doorway; once things have names, they start separating out of the background on their own.