I desire to be bored. I yearn to build a capacity for boredom. I remember my mother always said, only boring people are bored. I think she was teaching me to make use of my time and invent things to do. Which I have done and as a result I have done very well. But now, I feel, as I imagine my life, and what I want to wake up to each morning a bit of boredom might be good? Quotes on being bored make it seem like the very worst affliction on the planet. For example, Kierkegaard said it is the root![]()
