Learning as Medicine

The calm feeling of sitting down to expand your horizons. 

Oftentimes, we subjectively feel the worst when the options in life seem the most closed, when the rules seem the most rigid, and when curiosity is lowest. The act of learning something new, unseen, seems to expand the available options, seems to uncover the loopholes in the rules, and fosters curiosity about things that previously seemed mundane but now have labels to the parts and detailed histories.