Stand at the edge of a big lake alone and you’ll feel small in the best way. Most of your problems shrink to scale.

Something genuinely large puts you back in proportion, and the smallness turns out to be a relief rather than an insult. Much of the daily pressure comes from an unspoken sense that everything you do is being weighed and that you are at the centre of it. Standing next to something vast and indifferent quietly removes that assumption for a while.

Go somewhere big enough to produce the effect and go alone. Stay long enough for the restlessness to pass. What you bring back is usually less urgency, which is worth more than any conclusion you might have reached.