Every morning the world whispers that you are falling behind. When you obey it — take the job, send the message, accept the answer — what are you actually obeying?

1. 1A real clock. Some windows do close, and the people who waited lost.
2. 2Someone else's clock, sold to me as my own.
3. 3The discomfort of not having decided. Moving is how I make that feeling stop.
4. 4Nothing. I am the other failure — I wait until the leap forgets it was possible.

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