The lost art of being bored

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I’m a big fan of rest. Huge fan actually. Resting, recovering, breathing. Always planning my days with a lot of space for slow mornings, and planning my weeks with a lot of time for audiobooks and gazing out over the river. I’m even planning trips I'm taking with extra space before and after, just to give myself time to mentally prepare, and to rest.

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In today’s world everything seems to go faster and faster, and it happens almost without us noticing. We are getting so used to the uptempo and the high speed that we are becoming speed blind. Have you lately checked out your old favorite children programmes, just to realize how incredible slow they are so you’re just wondering how you even could focus and find it interesting for more than five seconds? Or feeling nostalgic and dug out and old hit from the 80s or 90s, that you used to dance like crazy to and get all excited about, just to realize, it actually doesn’t have a very fast paste?!

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