I completely agree with you when you said that people nowadays are living in stimulus and reacting to everything around them. I have read a book that was written many decades ago entitled How to Live 24 Hours a Day. I highly recommend that you check that book out. It's a very quick read, but it's very profound.

What relates your post to that book is that even during the time the book was written, people were already having a hard time just not doing anything and just be bored. Boredom is actually a good thing if you think about it because nowadays when people are bored, we tend to distract ourselves. We tend to pull out our phones, check our feeds, and get swayed by the algorithm or be entertained and diverted from boredom itself.

Boredom is a very important thing because it allows our brain to think things through and think deeply. People are no longer using their brains right now... we are all just reacting to stimulus, and you are absolutely on point on that one. I completely agree with you.

I wish that there's a way for us to understand the repercussions of not being able to jus t sit down and think because right now, I see a lot of the youth and even some of my friends who can't spend time just to be mindful and to have some realizations after a short while of solitude and thinking. This is because they always go out there and allow themselves to be swayed by society's opinions. We need to take back control of our minds and to actually think!