Being unreachable for one hour is not a crisis. It’s a meeting with yourself.

Being reachable at every hour is a recent arrangement, and it quietly became a duty nobody agreed to. Sixty minutes without a signal feels risky mostly because you have been trained to expect that something urgent is always arriving. Almost nothing that comes in during that hour cannot wait for the next one.

Pick an hour this week and leave the phone in another room. Tell one person where you are going if that makes it easier. Notice what your attention does once it stops checking, and whether anything actually broke while you were gone.