In conversation with my best bro recently, I was taken with how he characterised his long weekend break as time for a reset. That word announced its urgency and import: RESET.
Surely I needed a reset too?
When life feels like a constant rush and a relentless trudge, there must be something that’s just off. Perhaps this is why we go on vacations, not only for the break or the relaxation, but to figure out what we will do next.
If what we are doing now even makes sense. Do we even know what we are so preoccupied with?
Last month, after winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Ariana DeBose explained how her successful awards season took “a lot of hard work… A lot of choice to take my rejections as redirections.”
Perhaps the best reset is simply to identify the rejections that have assailed and punished us, and to recognise them as wondrous blessings that we have received. Perhaps a reset isn’t about changing the things in our lives right now but the way we view them and our intentions.