Two minutes changed my day.

This morning I had a plan. Emails to send, site visits to organise, a quote to finalise.

Then 11am arrived.

I stopped what I was doing. Put my phone face down. Stood in silence.

Two minutes.

In that pause, I thought about the names I'll never know.

The lads who never made it home from the Somme. The pilots who didn't return. The soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who gave everything so we could keep living ordinary lives.

My ordinary life.

The one where I get to worry about emails and quotes and whether the grounds team has enough fuel for Monday.

That's what they died for.

The ordinary. The mundane. The freedom to build a business, raise a family, complain about the weather.

Remembrance Sunday isn't just about the World Wars... it's about every conflict. Every service member who put on a uniform and never took it off.

I paused today because I owe them that.

Two minutes of stillness in exchange for a lifetime of freedom.

And when I came back to my desk, something had shifted. The emails felt less urgent. The frustrations, smaller. The gratitude, heavier.

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If you paused today too, drop a 🕊️ below. And if you didn't, there's always next year. But maybe don't wait.

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