You have to accept that there will always be too much to do; that you can’t avoid tough choices or make the world run at your preferred speed; that no experience, least of all close relationships with other human beings, can ever be guaranteed in advance to turn out painlessly and well – and that from a cosmic viewpoint, when it’s all over, it won’t have counted for very much anyway.
Oliver Burkeman (2021). Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals.
This feels quite liberating. I have a tendency to feel like I have to do All The Things and this is a reminder that I can’t. And to chill out about it.