“We’ll be in touch” can mean a week. Don’t rewrite your whole life story in the first forty-eight hours.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Silence has no content in it, and your mind will supply some anyway. Two days of quiet usually means a busy week on the other end, not a verdict, but the story you build in that gap is about your whole future rather than one job. Hiring is slow for reasons that have nothing to do with you.
Set a date when you will think about it again and leave it alone until then. Keep applying in the meantime, because the best cure for one uncertain answer is a second option. If the day arrives with no word, send one short message. Then go back to your week.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What story did you tell yourself before the answer arrived?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
- The first day your hair fits in a ponytail feels like a trophy. Little milestones keep long goals alive.
- Strawberries picked green don’t ripen much off the plant. Some things need their full time where they are.
- The results were decided the moment you turned in the test. Worry is just reading a book that’s already finished.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.