WtP S24E5 | Figuring out what we want

Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking · Feb 11, 2022 · 13m

Adam Philips provides our Stoics on the Cycle Path reading today: “Every adult remembers, among many other things, the great ennui of childhood, and every child’s life is punctuated by spells of boredom … Boredom is actually a precarious process in which the child is, as it were, both waiting for something and looking for something, in which hope is being secretly negotiated, and in this sense boredom is akin to free-floating attention. In the muffled, sometimes irritable confusion of boredom the child is reaching to a recurrent sense of emptiness out of which his real desire can crystallize…