Aquarius

The quiet between you and someone else is not always waiting to be filled. Sometimes it carries more information than any conversation could, holding the shape of what does not need to be explained or defended. You have learned to recognize the difference between a pause that asks for words and one that asks for nothing at all. The people who matter most are the ones who can sit in that second kind of quiet with you, reading the same invisible text. This is not distance disguised as closeness but closeness that has moved past the need for constant translation.