A quiet shoreline can make a person’s own hurry sound unnecessary.

Urgency needs an environment that agrees with it. Standing somewhere that has been doing the same thing at the same pace for several thousand years, your internal insistence that everything must be resolved by Thursday briefly loses its footing. Nothing has been solved and no decision has become easier. What changes is the volume of the hurry, which was never proportionate to the problem in the first place.

Go somewhere with an old, slow rhythm this month, even for an hour. Take the thing you are anxious about with you and see how it sounds when nothing around you is in a rush.