Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Taurus season.
One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"And a little later you added:"You know-- one loves the sunet, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Some changes in how you and another person move around each other happen so slowly that neither of you announces them, and by the time you notice, the new pattern has been in place for months. You find yourself texting less often, or they do. You stop asking certain questions. They stop offering certain kinds of information. The conversations stay friendly, but they cover less ground than they used to. Neither of you decided this should happen, and neither of you has said it is happening, but something has shifted in the space between you. The year ahead asks whether this quiet change is something that needs to be named out loud, or whether some relationships are meant to find their new shape without a conversation about the old one.