A season of growing teaches the difference between tending and continually interfering.

Care and interference feel identical from inside, because both come from wanting things to go well. The difference only shows up over time, in whether your attention gave something room or kept resetting it. Growing things make this legible, since they cannot be hurried and they object visibly when you will not let them alone.

Pick something you are looking after, a plant or a project or somebody’s new attempt at something, and decide in advance how often you will check. Then keep to it, especially on the days you feel restless.