Stand next to the ocean for ten minutes. Watch how fast your group chat drama shrinks.

Proportion depends on what else is in view. A phone screen is a small frame, and anything inside it fills the whole thing, which is why a hundred messages about who said what can feel like the main event of your life. Put yourself in front of something enormous and the argument does not disappear, it just goes back to its real size. That is your sense of scale being returned rather than the problem being solved.

Find your version of the ocean this week, even a small one: the top of a hill, a big open sky, a long walk with no destination. Ten minutes, phone in your pocket.