Alone: Boredom and Solitude in a Time of Confinement
Look at your confinement as a time to pamper yourself a bit, to take stock as to who you are and what you do, to seek out simple pleasures. Hannah Olinger/Unsplash
Recently, a friend brought to my attention a remark from a young woman forced by the coronavirus outbreak to work at home: “I think I’m going to die of boredom more than anything else.”
The woman added that she struggles with a lack of structure when removed from the workplace.
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
