“The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.” — Pascal
However, we all need to sit quietly in a room to contemplate, read, write, draw, or dream from time to time.
There is such a thing as pandemic time. A time that goes heavily and slowly. A time when the days are mixed. A time when there is no significant difference between yesterday, today, and tomorrow. A time that we slow down. This kind of time can become a very tedious process for people who cannot distract themselves. Pascal has a quote that I love very much. He says, “The sole cause of people’s unhappiness is that they don’t know how to stay quietly in his room.” However, we all need to sit quietly at a table in a room to contemplate, read, write, draw, or dream from time to time. Only in those moments, our minds can go beyond the walls where they are stuck.
Boredom has become a very modern problem. Boredom stems from the idea that life has a lot of shapes worth chasing. We always think that we have to do something, that living is always being on the move. We want that scampering off from one entertainment to another, getting honey from every flower. Living life like a gluttonous of life, as a sequence of moments to consume, drives us to boredom. We are bored when we…
