On boredom

“I have my Snapchat open, so anyone can send me snaps.

“The snap I get the most, by far, is of people saying that they’re bored.

“How on earth can you be bored!?

“We could build a city with the wasted energy of those who send me Snapchats, saying that they’re bored.”

Casey Neistat

I spent half of my teenage years languishing in boredom.

It’s a horrible, stupid, useless word. I honestly don’t know why boredom hasn’t died out yet.

In a world in which we are constantly connected, constantly swamped under an unrelenting barrage of information, being bored seems to be a buzzword for any situation in which we haven’t checked Twitter in the last twenty seconds.

The vast majority of us are insanely privileged, and the rise of technology means we quite literally have the world at our fingertips.

We can envision, create and share absolutely anything we want. It’s never been easier to make things, to improve ourselves.

There is absolutely no excuse for boredom, not anymore. There’s always more work to be done, always another step to take.

Boredom should be extinct.