Archive: June 2020

June 2020 was a month of reckoning. Three months into a global pandemic, with social upheaval dominating the news cycle, the question of how to spend one’s mental energy became unavoidable.

Essays from June 2020

• Learning to Stop Complaining — An exploration of the complaint habit: why we do it, what it costs, and the quiet discipline of choosing a different response.

The essay was written during a period when complaint felt both more justified than ever and more pointless than ever. Everyone had grievances. Nobody was short on reasons to be frustrated. The question was whether voicing those frustrations was helping or whether it had become a habit that consumed energy without producing change.