When life proceeds at a more or less normal pace for us, it's easy to fall so far into a routine that we forget what we really want to do in life. And even when we do remember that thing we've always wanted to do, we can quickly find ourselves getting distracted once again and forget it anew.
So while they tend to be stressful and even scary, it's also true that periods of upheaval in our lives can put us in a state of mind to finally do what we've been putting off.
And as we're about to see, that's especially true if that upheaval has us spending a lot of time to ourselves.