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Five Minutes Away

Most people don't cost you time. They cost you the ability to think about anything else.

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Scott D. Clary
Oct 27, 2025
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You have two friends.

Both say “I’m five minutes away” when you text them.

The first friend shows up in five minutes. Every time. For three years.

The second friend shows up in twenty-five minutes. Sometimes thirty. Once, forty.

The time difference over three years is maybe thirty hours total.

But one friendship feels easy and the other feels expensive in a way you can’t quite name.

Here’s what’s expensive: the twenty minutes between when they said they’d arrive and when they actually do.

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