Three Shifts That Restore Mental Breathing Room

A few weeks ago I was sitting in a coffee shop, half working, half just sitting there.

A man sat down near me. Suit, laptop. He opened it, stared at the screen for a bit, then leaned back and rubbed his eyes.

A few minutes later a woman joined him.

She sat down and said, right away,
“I’m just really tired lately.”

He nodded. Not in a polite way. More like—yeah… same.

They weren’t talking about being busy.

It was that other kind of tired.

The kind where your mind doesn’t really shut off.
Where even when nothing is happening, something is still running in the background.

At one point he said,
“I feel like my brain never gets a break anymore.”

I’ve been hearing that in different ways for a while now.

You can see it too.
In how people move.
How quickly they reach for their phones.
How hard it is to just sit.

There’s just… a lot coming in.

All the time.

And nowhere for it to go.

So we keep going.

And eventually you notice—you don’t feel as clear. Not as steady.

That’s usually when people think something is wrong with them.

It’s not.

It’s what happens when your mind never gets a break.

They are lacking mental breathing room.

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