c/personality·Posted by u/emma_fraser·1h ago

Why do I get restless when my life is finally stable and nothing is wrong?

New apartment, job that's fine, no crisis on the calendar. Sunday afternoon I sat on the floor with a coffee and a clean kitchen and felt like I needed to knock something over. Not in a dramatic way. I opened my laptop and started looking at jobs in other cities. I rearranged the bookshelf. I picked at a small thing my partner said on Thursday and almost made it into a talk. I used to think I wanted calm. I said I wanted calm. Now that I have a stretch of it, I get itchy. It's like my personality is built for a problem to solve, and when there isn't one I invent a moving plan. Friends say I should enjoy it. I know. Enjoying it feels like waiting for the other shoe, so I go find a shoe. Does anyone else get worse when life is actually okay? What do you do with a Sunday that has no fire in it, besides starting a fight with your own furniture?

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