Calm isn’t boring. It’s what your life sounds like when you stop overbooking it.

A packed calendar can feel like proof your life is working, and quiet can feel like something has gone wrong. Often the quiet is just the absence of noise you were making yourself. With nothing overdue and nobody waiting on you, there is finally room to notice what you want. That is space, not dullness.

Leave one evening next week completely unplanned, and do not fill it when somebody asks. See what you end up doing with it. If restlessness turns up, let it, and stay put anyway.