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Do We Actually Know How to Be Bored Anymore?
Think briefly about the small mundane moments of your day-to-day schedule. You are sitting in the waiting room of an office, waiting in line at a restaurant, stopped in traffic, or simply unsure about what to do next. What do you do? The instinct is unconscious. I am tempted to grab my phone. I need to fill the space, make the time go by faster, or escape the quiet. I am bored. But what is boredom? Why is it so hard? And further still, is boredom a problem to be solved, or an opportunity for which we are made, that we as a culture no longer appreciate? How can we…
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How We Can Break the Silence Around Suicide and Depression
I recently came across a post online about depression that stopped me for a moment. The person sharing it said that, from the outside, most people would probably never know they were struggling. They appear happy, take care of their kids, go to work, and move through life like everything is fine. Then they shared something that I think captures the reality for so many people: “People have no idea what’s going on inside the heads of people suffering. We look no different than anyone else…” I have someone close to me, and a conversation with them just last night before I wrote this reinforced something I already know: even…
