"The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges"

Key Redfield Jamison writes, in THE BENEFITS OF RESTLESSNESS AND JAGGED EDGES:

"I have often longed for peace and tranquility -- looked into the lives of others and envied a kind of calmness -- and yet I don't know if this tranquility is what I truly would have wished for myself. One is, after all, only really acquainted with one's own temperament and way of going through life. It is best to acknowledge this, to accept it and to admire the diversity of temperaments Nature has dealt us."

I agree with the latter part. I do, however, envy that kind of calmness which I rarely know.