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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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You're Not Busy, I'm Just Not Priority

You're Not Busy, I'm Just Not Priority

Dhiman, Harsh

Paperback

RomanceGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798183584141
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 21 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Aarav Mehta remembers everything. The small things. The unspoken things. He remembers a peanut allergy, a limping dog, one less spoon of sugar in his mother's tea.

But the people he loves keep telling him the same gentle lie: I'm just so busy.

Across more than a decade, Aarav falls for the same girl - Naina - three separate times. At a school gate. On a library bench. On an office terrace. And every single time, just as it starts to matter, she's too busy to say what they both already know.

After the third loss, something in Aarav breaks. Instead of grieving properly, he decides to become busy too - a quiet, careful kind of armor. He stops answering calls. He stops showing up. And when a kind, hopeful woman named Priya finally chooses him freely, he does to her exactly what was done to him, until she's gone too - leaving him with one unbearable sentence: You're the loneliest busy person I've ever met.

Wrecked by what he's become, Aarav boards a delayed train to the mountains and meets Mehek - a stranger who recognizes his pain instantly, because she once carried the exact same wound. Over nineteen days trekking through the Himalayas, she teaches him the truth he's spent his whole life avoiding: busy was never really about time. It was always a curtain people hang up instead of saying no.

What Aarav doesn't know is that Mehek is dying. On their last day together, she disappears during a storm - leaving behind a letter that finally says everything she couldn't say out loud, and asks him to go back and choose the people in his life properly, without excuses, for however long he's given.

YOU'RE NOT BUSY, I'M JUST NOT PRIORITY is a quiet, emotionally devastating novel about the gentlest lie we tell the people we love - and the difference between finding the time for someone, and choosing them.

For anyone who has ever been told, kindly, that someone was too busy for them - and wondered, quietly, if that was ever really the truth.

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