this email is boring

Hello friend—you’re receiving this email as a part of morning reading, a daily reflection on the parts of life worth living for that you signed up for sometime last year. I've got a laundry list of additions, designs updates, and website pieces I want to make, but ultimately, I just wanted to bring this back. Thank you for reading, and a very happy New Year. 

BordeomJanuary 15th

Good morning, friend. Boredom.Boredom boredom boredom.Booooorrrrreeedom. Boredom.You’d think we’d have found a better answer to it—like optimizing the sleep-time with the in-between times. Where we could zone out and completely restore in between the moments where our intensity is needed, drawn out of us by demanding circumstances. We’ve certainly built billion dollar industries around eliminating it from our lives. Though that’s nothing new: it’s easy to throw rocks at modern society, with good reason, but it seems like no sooner did evolution crank up our pattern-seeking amygdalas than we suddenly realized we needed some kind of distraction 23 ½ hours of the day. But boredom is worth a second thought. Not some easy moralism or sermon about how life needs dynamics and contrast to be meaningful, which probably true, but not as interesting as this: boredom is itself not a very reliable way of dividing the world. There are countless situations that are not boring even the most bored person on the planet would not choose: needing emergency surgery is not boring. Car crashes are not boring. Being fired and hand-to-hand combat and having your house burn down are not boring. So whatever else being boring is and being boring is not, the concept of boring is, in and of itself, somewhat boring. So maybe, the next time you’re bored, well, who knows.Just doesn’t feel like the kind of thing that is worth paying that much attention to. Journal Prompt: What's something that was once exciting but is now boring? Is that a problem?