How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times

We have probably already had enough excitements for many lifetimes. We have seen enough people, gone to enough places, bought enough things. We need to stop the forces of the modern world from continuing to draw us away from our true home. There is no centre, there is no party to which we have not been invited. There is just us, here, now, somewher

other to become

We would learn how our family dynamics might shape how we interact with others, and how to communicate our reality gracefully to those we care about; we would learn who to try to love and how to do so.

and reopen our minds to vastness — and, along the way, to start going to bed earlier.

We would need to experience so much less if we knew how to draw appropriate value from what we had already done and seen. Our impulse for constant movement may at heart be a confession of an inability to process. We feel the need for so many new experiences because we have been so poor at absorbing the ones we have had.

One could be alone and at the same time not feel isolated or damned — just as one might be surrounded by family and yet feel painfully unseen and unheard.