Old clocks had to be wound by hand. Peace is like that. It runs down if nobody tends it.

Calm is not a state you arrive at and then own. It behaves more like something that keeps running only while somebody keeps putting energy in, and it winds down quietly, without an alarm, so you often notice weeks after it stopped. That goes for peace in a house, in a friendship, and in your own head.

Find the small maintenance you have stopped doing and do it this week. The walk, the sleep, the apology you have been meaning to make, ten minutes with nothing in your ears. None of it is dramatic, and it has to happen again next week too.