Valentina Ogaryan

Making Life Manageable When Everything Feels Huge

Finally, making your world smaller is not an endpoint but a bridge. Once you can breathe, think, and move again, you may find you’re able to face larger realities with more skill. The “small world” is a temporary home base—a way to restore capacity. In that sense, Ogaryan’s advice is quietly optimistic: when life becomes larger than life, you are allowed to resize your commitments, your inputs, and your focus. By doing so, you don’t lose the world—you regain your place in it. [...]