I came across a compelling blogpost this week about how important boredom is to intellectual stimulation.
You read that right: boredom is important to intellectual stimulation. I completely agree with that stance.
How is that possible? Well, boredom is so often the gateway to pondering issues and questions, whether they be about one's self, people in that person's life, or what's going on in the world around them. Curiosity can bloom, creativity can blossom, new understandings can take root.
The blogger voiced concern that a modern society hooked on perpetual stimulation in the form of social media or iPods or the latest technofad will not develop the ability to delve deeply - whether it's within or in the surrounding environment.
It's too easy to run from internal issues or societal problems by distracting yourself with the waves of stimulation pounding us as incessantly as the ocean's surf....so people don't grow, issues aren't resolved, problems aren't corrected.
And a society lurches from fad to fad, which is not the same as progress. As healing. As enriching humanity.
I wonder how much of the "noise" distracting us today is intellectual junk food for a populace that needs a far more "nutritious" menu.
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