The drive home after dropping everyone off is the quietest your head will be all day. Don’t waste it on noise.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
There are small windows in a day when nothing is being asked of you, and the ride home once everybody else is out of the car is one of the few that arrives reliably. Nobody is talking, nothing needs answering, and whatever has been waiting since morning finally gets its turn. Filling it with noise is effortless and costs you the only unoccupied stretch you had.
Leave the stereo off for one of those drives this week. Let your head sort itself without assistance. If something important surfaces, write it down once you park.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What comes up in the quiet after you drop everyone off?
MORE IN SOLITUDE & SELF-KNOWLEDGE
- After a friend group breaks apart, the empty weekends teach you what you were only doing to fit in.
- Your middle name, your family’s old jokes, the town you were born in. You’re made of more than what you’ve accomplished.
- You don’t owe every new person your whole story. Some chapters are just for you.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.