I Didn’t Find Peace There

I went out to the battlefield today.

That wasn’t the original plan.

Earlier in the day, I drove out to the job site I’ll be working on.
I didn’t have to go yet, but I wanted to see it.

Where it was.
How long it would take to get there.
What it actually looked like in person.

Nothing complicated.
Just removing the unknown.

And once I did that, something shifted.

There wasn’t anything hanging over me anymore.
No background noise.
No low-level stress I couldn’t quite name.

Just… clarity.

That’s when I ended up at the battlefield.

Walking the same ground, seeing the same things anyone else would see.

But it didn’t feel heavy.

It didn’t feel like anything I had to process or figure out.

It just felt quiet.

For a second, I thought I found it there.

But that’s not really what happened.

I brought it with me.

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