APX-V-0016
“I've been neglecting someone who depends on me.”
Neglect is not usually malicious — it's drift. You got busy, distracted, depleted. But someone in your orbit is tracking your presence whether you notice it or not. The correction is simple: show back up. No long explanation needed. Just return.
Your Practice
Contact or be physically present with this person today. Not a long message — a direct, simple act of attention. Ask one question about their life and give them your full focus for the answer. Then build a recurring reminder so the drift doesn't happen again quietly.
The Architects
“Confine yourself to the present.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VII.29 (George Long translation: 'Wipe out the imagination ... Confine thyself to the present.')