I live in the Bavarian Forest. Where the map is green, where hills calm the gaze and dead zones often decide on phone calls faster than you do. A good place to think.
For a long time, that wasn't my world. Job, side projects, on the road almost every weekend. Events, concerts. Always loud, always busy. I was the one people called when something had to run, and I usually said the next yes before I'd thought about it. For a while it felt like achievement. Until my body disagreed.
These days I live more deliberately. I listen more often before I answer. To myself too, which is actually the harder of the two.
What I keep thinking about doesn't fit neatly into one discipline. AI hasn't let me go in years. But just as much, the question of why so many people keep functioning until their body decides for them. I was one of them.
I don't believe you always have to be strong. But I do believe you shouldn't stay alone with it.