Lately, I’ve been fed up with almost everything.
With the state of the world.
With social media and constant selling.
With the endless noise, opinions, urgency.
And, if I’m honest, with myself too — my lack of focus.
What I really wanted was to disappear for a while.
In nature, with RED my cat.
Silence. Peace. No should or musts, no having to perform, or respond to.
So I took myself on two deliberate time outs to Zeeland— away from my normal life, away from my routines, away from the constant input, the noise, the Stress.
No big epiphanies.
No dramatic reinvention.
Just space.
What became crystal clear during those time outs is this:
We are not lacking information.
We are lacking space.
Space to think.
Space to feel.
Space to hear ourselves again.
The real challenge, of course, is not finding space once — it’s holding on to that sense of peace and Clarity when we return to normal, urban life.
And this morning was a good reminder that it is possible.
I am just back from a two-hour walk — almost 12 kms — through the forested areas here in The Hague and back along the beach. A bit of brisk walking, a little jogging as I gently tested my creaky knees. No music. No podcast. No input. Just walking, breathing, clearing.
It worked miracles.
Not because life suddenly changed — but because I created space within it.
This is what I believe now more than ever:
clarity doesn’t come from adding more.
It comes from pausing — intentionally, regularly, honestly — and learning how to carry that spaciousness back into everyday life.
Sometimes, the most powerful move forward…
is a well-chosen time out.
Don’t you think?
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