The Morning Oracle
Practice Being Reachable
Leave enough margin in the day for another life to matter.
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Richard Nkwenti
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Efficiency can make a life impressive and unreachable. Every minute is optimized, every conversation shortened, every pause treated as waste. Soon there is no unguarded place where another person can arrive.
Leave a little margin today. Look up when someone speaks. Ask the second question. Allow an encounter to take longer than its transaction.
Humanity often enters through what the schedule did not plan. A face changes. A story opens. Your own certainty becomes less lonely.
The world needs competence, but competence without presence becomes machinery. Practice being reachable enough for another life to matter before it becomes a task.