We live in a culture that equates activity with a life well lived. Travel, achievement, novelty and a full calendar have become shorthand for engagement, while stillness can look suspiciously like boredom. But what if boredom is sometimes something else—restlessness, discomfort, or an inability to sit with the season we're actually in?
Drawing on experiences from a monastery to fatherhood and building SwiftReporter, Evan Sutter explores the difference between being busy and being present. He considers why we so often reach for the next experience, project or achievement, and what might happen if, instead, we learned to recognise what the current season of our lives is asking of us.
Because not every season is meant to be exciting. Some are meant for planting, some for harvesting, and some simply for staying long enough to see what grows.
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