You’re absolutely right. It’s lonely, it’s frustrating and discouraging but to produce something you have sit down and do it. Making TikTok videos is just an attention seeking action. Loneliness and sitting with your thoughts cannot be bypassed. Everyone is afraid of boredom. I wonder what a generation that cannot cope with boredom will produce.
There’s something important here about staying with boredom and loneliness rather than trying to outrun them. So much of making anything meaningful happens in those quiet, unglamorous stretches. I don’t think it’s boredom we’re afraid of so much as what might surface when there’s no distraction. That’s where the work begins and where it asks the most of us. Thank you for sharing your thoughts 😊✊️
You’re absolutely right. It’s lonely, it’s frustrating and discouraging but to produce something you have sit down and do it. Making TikTok videos is just an attention seeking action. Loneliness and sitting with your thoughts cannot be bypassed. Everyone is afraid of boredom. I wonder what a generation that cannot cope with boredom will produce.
There’s something important here about staying with boredom and loneliness rather than trying to outrun them. So much of making anything meaningful happens in those quiet, unglamorous stretches. I don’t think it’s boredom we’re afraid of so much as what might surface when there’s no distraction. That’s where the work begins and where it asks the most of us. Thank you for sharing your thoughts 😊✊️