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Boredom makes us uncomfortable.

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Polina Pompliano
Jul 05, 2020
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Boredom makes us uncomfortable. 

For most of my adult life, I’ve seen silence as a void that has to be promptly filled with something enthralling or productive. 

As we entered the first month of quarantine, I felt the dullness of boredom — nowhere to be, no one to see, nothing to do. And then, like millions of other humans around the globe, I downloaded T…

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