Urgency is often treated as a virtue. In work culture, speed becomes a proxy for care, and reaction replaces reflection. But urgency is not neutral, and when it’s mistaken for importance, context, wisdom, and human limits are quietly pushed aside.
Urgency often masquerades as importance. In work culture, speed becomes a proxy for care, and reaction replaces reflection. This piece examines what we lose when immediacy is rewarded over context, wisdom, and human limits.
One of the greatest honors of my life came when I was given an Empaako name: Akiiki, meaning “one who upholds national, community, and family interests with great love, care, kindness, and honesty.” That moment changed everything. I wasn’t an outsider documenting poverty—I was family, trusted with stories that deserved to be shared with reverence and love. Before Uganda, I thought resilience was about bouncing back from hardship. Now I know it’s something deeper: the farmer who plants seeds when rains are uncertain, the refugee youth dreaming of becoming a software engineer after surviving years on the streets, the mother walking miles to fetch water because her children depend on her strength. Resilience isn’t built in isolation. It’s nurtured across generations, passed from heart to heart like a living flame of hope.
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I’m Janelle Nightingale — a communicator, storyteller, and bridge-builder, weaving narratives that uplift and unite across cultures.
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