23 September · Your priorities can change with your season.

Uncertainty

I used to be ambitious, but now I want a quieter life.

A little room to breathe.23 September

Uncertainty

“Le pris de l’ame ne consiste pas à aller haut, mais ordonnéement. Sa grandeur ne s’exerce pas en la grandeur, c’est en la mediocrité.”

English translation

“The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity.”

Michel de Montaigne — Essais, 1580–1595III.2English translation by Charles Cotton (W. Carew Hazlitt edition, 1877)Read the source ↗

Your priorities can change with your season.

Wanting more quiet doesn't erase the drive or effort of earlier years. Different circumstances can make stability, time, and close relationships feel more important; you can take those wishes seriously without having to prove that your old priorities were wrong.

ONE SMALL STEP

Name what a quieter life would make room for.

A little room to breathe.23 September

A spark of light in your day.

A spark
of light
in your day.