Behind The Torch – The Marantu Dispatch
There is a difference between clarity and readiness.
Many things can be seen before they can be done.
Many truths arrive early, long before the world has prepared a place for them.
And many movements fail not because they were wrong,
but because they were early.
We mistake urgency for alignment.
We confuse pressure with permission.
We think that because something is visible, it must be acted on immediately.
But life does not move by revelation alone.
It moves by timing.
A seed that breaks the soil too soon dies.
A child asked to carry weight before their bones harden collapses.
A word spoken before the room can hear it becomes noise.
Not yet is not avoidance.
It is fidelity to the season you are in.
There are moments when restraint is the highest form of action.
When waiting is not fear, but listening.
When holding back is not weakness, but care.
Wisdom is not knowing what to do.
It is knowing when.
We admire those who act boldly,
but history is shaped just as much by those who knew when to pause.
Those who did not force the river,
but learned its current and entered it at the right bend.
To say not yet is to trust that time is not your enemy.
That the moment you are waiting for is also waiting for you.
That readiness is something life builds in you quietly,
while you think nothing is happening.
Do not rush your becoming.
Do not drag the future into the present before it has roots.
Do not punish yourself for standing still
when stillness is what keeps the work alive.
There will come a moment
when hesitation falls away without effort.
When action no longer feels heavy.
When the step forward feels inevitable, not forced.
That is how you will know.
Until then,
not yet is not failure.
It is devotion.
—Uzanenkosi
Torchbearer, Marantu
Year 0 | Izulu 09 | Week 2