launch window;  window of opportunity;  You have a two-hour window of clear weather to finish working on the lawn.

I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.

The pæans were songs, of which the tune and words expressed courage and confidence. […] Pæans were sung, not only when there was a hope of being able, by the help of the gods, to overcome a great and imminent danger, but when the danger was happily past; they were songs of hope and confidence as well as of thanksgiving for victory and safety.

What type of person you become is down to you.