Kept fences
Building is exciting. The plans, the motion, the first look of something new.
But keeping it standing — that’s different work. It’s slower. Quieter. And it rarely gets applause.
Everyone has opinions on what you’ve built. Most of them from people who never held a post or stretched a wire.
Fences don’t fix themselves. And neither do systems, teams, or ideas.
You built it. You know where it’s strong, where it bends, where it still needs care.
Stand by it.
No one else will guard it like you do.