The Art of Being Overwhelmed

Jon Townsend
8 min readNov 1, 2019

I remember sitting in traffic one morning — complete gridlock — and learning a valuable lesson through seeing others in pain.

That sounds strange, I know.

I had just accepted that was going to be late for work. I even left early, but before I knew it, the morning’s events were out of my control. An accident here, construction there, and just enough rain for the congestion of people in…

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Jon Townsend

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