Status Anxiety

Vast landscapes can have much the same anxiety-reducing effect on us as ruins, for they are the representatives of infinite space, as ruins are the representatives of infinite time. Against them, or within them, our weak, short-lived bodies must seem of no greater consequence than those of moths or spiders.Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

A timely reminder that my present struggles would do well to be set aside, and that perhaps a trip to a vast landscape would do much to rejuvenate me.