The issue of addiction to our digital devices isn’t new, and I got a reminder today when I was listening to YouTube in the background.

I’ll eventually get around to writing about digital addiction, but in the meantime, I thought the better way to approach it, would be to actually focus on celebrating the beauty of boredom.

Somehow being bored has turned into a bad thing. We’re always doing our best to cram a podcast episode in, or doom scroll, just to avoid being bored.

Let your mind wander

One of the beautiful things about being bored, is that I allow my mind to wander and go to strange places. Sometimes I don’t feel like going there, but when it’s quiet, and there is nothing to do, you can release your mind, and it finds these magical places. Sometimes it’s a dark cave, sometimes it can be a wonderful world, akin to discovering Narnia.

Who knows what you’ll find. All I know is, cramming my brain full of digital dialogue is effectively forcing my mind to sit in a classroom in a stupor, rather than going out to play.