Find your town on a globe. Then remember every big thing that ever happened to you happened in that dot.

On a globe your whole life so far takes up less than a fingertip, and that is not an insult to it. Every friendship, every loss, every good afternoon happened inside that dot. Which means the size of a place tells you nothing about how much can happen in it.

Open a map and zoom out until your town is a single dot. Then list four things that genuinely mattered to you which happened within a mile of your house.