Boredom is the way to truly access free will
How can you get bored in this mobile world? There are so many interesting things to do and there is so little time, why would you spend it not doing anything?
I get bored every once in a while. I kinda find it as an abuse, and I think boredom is a waste of productive time and that I should never ever get bored. For me, boredom is a sin which is at par with watching TV endlessly.
Not anymore! I think boredom is a prerequisite to my mind (truly) acting on free will. When I get bored, I am not doing anything or maybe I don't know what to do. I can only voluntarily get out of it by deciding what I would like to do next. The next activity that I take up is a result of a "pure decision", in that, my mind doesn't have priorities and it is free to decide what it wants.
It was so amateurish of me to think of boredom as something I need to escape from. I think, all of sudden Nietzsche kicked in/me and now, I feel getting bored is worth it and I don't want to escape it anymore.
Cheers to getting bored. By the way, the first thing I am doing after 20 minutes of boredom is writing this blog post. I haven't been blogging for around half-a-year now and it is freakishly-creative of my mind to choose blogging.
PS: I think my brain has a mind of its own. :) No wonder people talk about mind and body as two separate things!
Have a good day,
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