Coming Back to the Work: The Heartbreak will be Televised V2.7

Sometimes you need to step away.
Life gets heavy, the noise builds, and everything starts to feel like a chore. People talk about taking a break like it’s a cure, but for me, it’s complicated.

When I stop working, when I finally rest or take a vacation, I feel a kind of happiness that scares me. It’s the happiness of not doing the things I don’t want to do — and that contrast makes coming back harder. I start to miss the version of myself that doesn’t have to grind.

But the truth is, I always come back. I need the work. The act of creating, of building something with my hands and mind, is where I make sense of things again. The back-and-forth between pressure and peace is just part of it.

This piece is part of that return. A quiet restart.