The Art of Being Unavailable

🪶 The Art of Being Unavailable

There is something sacred about not answering.

About letting the phone ring.
About reading the message, but not replying.
About leaving a notification unopened.

Not because of ego.
Not because of disinterest.
But because your time is not a buffet.
It is a candle —
meant to be burned deliberately.

The world trains us to say yes,
to be accessible, reachable, responsive,
to treat attention as a currency
and availability as a virtue.

But availability is not always generosity.
Sometimes, it is leakage.
Of energy.
Of boundaries.
Of self.

You can be loving, and still be absent.
You can care, and still go quiet.
You can protect your space, and still belong.

This is not rejection.
This is rhythm.
A breathing in. A breathing out.

You are not a screen.
You are not a node.
You are not a router of other people’s needs.

You are allowed to disappear.
To choose your silences.
To live your own tempo.

And those who know your music,
will wait for the next note.