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Every night at 9 p.m., Noor set a timer for two minutes and moved through the room like a small wind.
She didn’t clean everything; she only reset what shouted the loudest—dishes to sink, shoes to rack, mail to a tray. The timer made the task playful and finite. After a week the room stopped yelling; after a month the ritual felt like rinsing the day off before sleep. She found herself doing a two-minute sweep of her mind as well—jotting tomorrow’s worries onto a small card so they would stop pacing the floor of her thoughts. It was not perfection; it was permission to rest.
