Once upon a time, before the age of the devices and the internet there existed a state amongst children, teenagers and adults called "boredom" That state introduced and promoted by schools and schoolwork made everyone aware of it and conscious of having to do something to cope with it. It was important to teach people about how to deal with boredom because life and work had a lot of it. But everyone had to learn how to deal with it their own way and the usual means were to engage with others, make friends, play sport and other such interactive things . The point is that having to deal with boredom created a mindset that could deal with it when you were on your own or in many social and work areas where it manifested itself. And that did not lead to mental problems there were no alternative avenues to distract you, you had to develop the self-discipline to survive. The age of the devices has changed all this, there is constantly the possibility of distraction by recourse to phone or tablet and as a consequence of this and the constant need to appear in some way in social loops on the social platforms social discourse and interaction have been cheapened in the content and the quality of interaction generally. The constant availability of an alternative takes away the reflection and the demand of having to live in your own mental space without any outside help I suggest that the superficiality, the culture, comes from this personal inability to cope with being bored, even of oneself and developing the resources to cope with it. My feeling is that much creativity comes from the isolation in which boredom is created and that the culture which you and I value comes from the fact that we may be the last generation to appreciate that. #Digital Wellness 📱🧘 #MEDITATION (mindfulness)