Quarantine Boredom Is A Privilege

LaShana Lewis
4 min readMar 23, 2020
A person lays on their bed, staring at a mobile device, looking sullen.
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In the projects, no one really cares about you or your well-being. Self-sacrifice is the norm.

I remember summers when the lights would go out. We’d all have the electricity out for blocks. Taking sleeping bags and blankets out to the porch, or sleeping with the main door open and screen-door locked were standards. Sometimes, it would be days.

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LaShana Lewis

LaShana is CEO and Founder of L. M. Lewis Consulting, a business dedicated to offering diversity, nonprofit, and technology consulting services.