Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Gemini season.
Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
Bob Dylan
The friendships that go quiet usually carry more weight in the silence than they ever did in the conversation. You find yourself reading into the gap where their voice used to be, translating the absence into a dozen different stories about what it means and who decided first. But most of the time, no one decided anything. Two people simply stopped reaching across the distance, and the distance did what distance does. The year ahead asks you to stop writing fiction in the margins of other people's lives and see the quiet for what it actually is: not a verdict on the friendship, but the natural drift that happens when attention gets pulled in different directions. What you are mourning is not the person, but the version of yourself that existed in conversation with them.