The Room

The Room

I was in a meeting this past week.

The setting created distance, not proximity.

Three large monitors

and a desk between us.

The air was stale.

No windows. Nothing to shift the room.

Physically — and otherwise.

The questions came quickly across the table.

They were well-rehearsed.

But they didn’t quite land.

Out of context.

I found myself responding,

but not to anything that had fully surfaced.

Answers followed.

Solutions. Programmes.

Next.

But nothing had really surfaced yet.

And it wasn't just that room.

Movement.

Progress.

Decisions.

Before anything real had the chance to take shape.

Not because people aren’t trying.

But we move too quickly to resolution.

We end up responding to something that was never fully there.

Paul

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