The New Boredom

No, you don’t have to optimize it. Just live through it.

Amy Shearn
Forge
Published in
2 min readFeb 1, 2021

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Photo: Grace Cary / Getty Images

Once upon a time, a million years ago, boredom was something we grudgingly admitted we might need a little more of in our overscheduled and overstimulated lives. At the beginning of the pandemic, we got, well, a lot more. Some of us tried to make the most of it: We heard that boredom would actually help us to be more creative, more…

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Amy Shearn
Forge

Formerly: Editor of Creators Hub, Human Parts // Ongoingly: Novelist, Essayist, Person