People think loneliness is the absence of people. I don’t think it is. I think loneliness is the absence of being witnessed. They’re not the same thing. You can sit in a room full of conversation… Watch people laugh. Hear plans being made. Feel life continuing around you. And slowly realize… No one has noticed …
I don’t think the hardest part of making a decision is making it. I think the hardest part comes afterward. When the decision is over… But you aren’t. Life moves on with remarkable confidence. The conversation ends. The opportunity passes. The relationship changes. The plane leaves. The paper is signed. The chapter closes. Everything outside …
We have this quiet assumption that the moment we’re living in will still be there when we’re finally ready. So we wait. We chase. We tell ourselves, “Later.” Later, when I’m more healed. Later, when I’m more confident. Later, when I finally feel worthy of it. Without realizing it, we freeze the moment in our …
Maybe you’ve been thinking about it. The way your mind quietly finishes stories before they’ve begun. Builds homes you haven’t lived in. Writes futures that haven’t introduced themselves. Maybe you’ve even caught yourself smiling at a life that only existed in your imagination. There’s nothing foolish about that. That’s what hearts do. The question isn’t …
Read more Another Window Part II: The View You Never Planned For
It doesn’t have to belong to you for you to miss it. Strange, isn’t it? We can grieve places we’ve never lived. Futures we’ve never stepped into. Conversations that never happened. People who never became ours. Sometimes we even grieve versions of ourselves we never got to become. How do you explain that kind of …