Floe - An Antidote to Languishing

A concept called floe may be an antidote to languishing. Floe is that elusive state of absorption in a meaningful challenge or a momentary bond where your sense of time, place and self melts away. During the early days of the pandemic, the best prodictor of well being wasn't optimism or mindfulness, it was flow. People who became more immersed in their projects manage to avoid languishing and maintain their pre pandemic happiness. An early morning word game catapults me into floe. A late night netflick pinge sometimes does the trick too. I've started to wonder if it's not so much retaliation against a loss of control as an act of quiet