I know the allure of the mystical, and the thrill of chasing peak experiences, but please remember to embrace the essence of the meaningful everyday.

Your pace is your pace.

Your path is your path.

You don’t need to move slowly, but you do need to move steadily, and it would be a shame to spend your life on the wrong path, at the wrong pace.

Work can be challenging, and it’s tempting to want to maximise your down-time by searching for novelties and peak experiences, or otherwise dissociating from the tedious aspects of your weekly routine whenever you get the chance, but I want you to recognise the risks of chronic liminality.

Stimulation isn’t nourishment, and chronic chasing (or screen scrolling) creates fissures in your psyche over time.

We are mistaken in our unconscious conviction that life is only truly lived in elated moods and pseudo-enlightened states.

To speak plainly, many people have the unfortunate and often unconscious tendency to overvalue their peak experiences while overlooking the negative consequences of their chasm experiences, which are far more common than we dare to admit.

The chasm is the slump, the depression, the apathetic bottom of the emotional rollercoaster.

The chasm experience is not entirely negative, there can be gifts in the darkness, but long, shallow chasms are common experiences which are intimately connected to many of our everyday challenges such as overconsumption, lack of direction, or our general disconnection from our deeper selves.

Continue your search for novelties, feel free to keep scrolling the YouTube feed today, but don’t dismiss the importance of optimising your everyday reality.

Tune up the quality of your work week, increase the brightness of your daily routine, and pay attention to the chasm in the background.

Challenge your tendency towards the peak experience, and consider putting in the effort to raise the bedrock of your chasmic low-point so that you don’t feel compelled to escape the pit in your climb towards euphoria.

Balance your peaks and chasms, and see what happens when life starts to feel like the safety of the summer meadow.

Jordan