Boredom will tell you who you are

If you don’t know what you want out of life, it could be because you’ve been distracted to such an extent that you’ve lost touch with who you are.

This can and does happen; chronic distraction makes it so you avoid emotions, especially the bad ones, which leads to more avoidance in the future, and that's one way how you end up with alexithymia.

Your feelings start to only communicate with you on the surface; they lose their essence, and this can be confusing; fear can be anger, anger can be disappointment, etc.

For example, you may dislike your job, but you probably don’t fully understand what deeply bothers you about it.

Or your friends, your interests, etc

You may want to scream or cry, and don’t even realise it.

Boredom does help with this, well, now we call it boredom since we barely give ourselves time to sit down and think.

Unstructured thinking time and idle time are very much needed for your body; that time is used to go through what happens in the day, help you sift through your emotions, etc

Let’s do a quick test: Can you put the phone down and do absolutely nothing for 20 minutes? no?

Well, my friend, it's time for some much-needed alone time.

It doesn’t feel good, you’re going to be emotionally pent up and have a lot of emotional debt to go through, but it gets better, eventually.

The pleasure that comes with silence, being present, things slowing down, and you knowing who you are and what you want, is hard to exaggerate.

It’s strange and beautiful to see stillness and yourself slowing down, to know what you actually feel, and to be able to put together what you want out of life.

Also, and maybe this isn’t advertised enough, boredom can breed creativity; it can actually become a problem if you meditate.

People who meditate will know what I’m talking about. Sometimes the ideas you get while meditating are so good you have to stop the session just to write them down.