How your boredom can be a source of great pleasure?
Most of your day today will be exactly the same as yesterday. On the surface, that seems like a bad thing. The human mind is attracted to novelty for a reason.
But I wasted years indulging this part of my brain. Misattributing novelty as evidence of passion only to find out that, years later, everything gets boring, most especially your passion.
I’ve found an alternative. That if you want to find real joy in life, you need to silence that novelty-seeking part of you. Silence it in the sense that it should steer you away from your practice. Boredom can be a source of great pleasure if you let it.
Here’s how I reframed my boredom and started to enjoy my life.
The repetitive nature of life will never cease. It’s the foundation of a good life, to repeat what you did yesterday. It means yesterday’s activities had enough meaning and value to be repeated.
Sometimes repetition is seen as a bad thing. As an idea to be banished. As an eventuality to be avoided. But in my life I’ve learned the opposite to be true, in fact, some of the most meaningful moments in my life have come from routine.
Just because something is familiar and consistent doesn’t mean it is sucked of any meaning, actually, quite the opposite is true.
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