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16 January 2026
There is a brief window each day when the world has not yet asked anything from you.
No replies. No explanations. No performance.
In that space, you are not a role. Not a responsibility. Just a person breathing, existing, unfinished.
Most people rush past this moment. They fill it with noise, headlines, messages, borrowed urgency. And then they wonder why the day feels heavy before it even begins.
But if you stay there a little longer — not thinking, not planning — something settles. The mind slows. The heart stops racing ahead of the body.
This is not discipline. This is mercy.
Life does not need you alert every second. It only needs you present when it matters.
And presence begins here, before the first demand is made.
Rajat Ch. Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam
India
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