Gemini
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The apology that was never offered changes how you read every conversation that came after it. Not because you are waiting for those words, but because their absence has taught you something about how this person moves through the world when they have done harm. You start to notice the careful way they step around certain topics, the small corrections they make to stories when you are in the room. What you thought was just one moment of bad timing reveals itself as a pattern of how they handle the uncomfortable spaces between people. The thing you have been carrying is not the hurt itself but the knowledge of what they choose not to see.