You know how it is.  You get a new haircut, and you can’t help paying extra attention to all the haircuts around you.

It’s the same way with boredom.  You start to think about it, and then it’s everywhere.

British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner (1950) Bertrand Russell wrote:

“A certain amount of boredom is…essential to a happy life.“

And he also wrote, giving a push for slow living:

“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”

Leo Tolstoy wrote “Boredom: the desire for desires,”  which partly explains why we cover up those slow moments with shopping, eating, drinking, rushing to and fro.  But it might be nice to embrace a slow moment sometimes, to stop for a sunset, instead of twittering and tweeting it away.