Umrah and the Art of Arriving

I have travelled a great deal for work. Umrah was different. There was no itinerary to optimise, no meetings, no outcome to chase.

What stayed with me was the simplicity of it: everyone dressed alike, everyone moving in the same direction, the city of business and ambition suspended for a while.

You do not arrive in Makkah as an investor or an entrepreneur. You arrive as a servant, and that is enough.

I came home with fewer answers than I expected and much more gratitude.