Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Leo season.
(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.
John Green
There are moments when you discover that the person you most want to share something with is the one person who cannot receive it, and the quiet that follows is not the absence of conversation but the presence of something else entirely. This is not the hollow quiet of having nothing to say. This is the full quiet of recognizing that some experiences can only be held alone, and that holding them alone does not make them smaller. The year ahead asks you to sit with this kind of quiet without rushing to fill it or explain it away. What you find there is not loneliness but a specific kind of company you keep with yourself when the usual audiences are not available. The conversations you have been having in your head for months will start to feel less like rehearsal and more like the real thing.