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The Room Got Quiet
<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>My room got quiet and I finally heard myself.</p><p><br/></p><p>You know that time after you lock your door? Data is off, everywhere dark, you just lie down and stare at ceiling. No noise. No gist. Just you.</p><p><br/></p><p>That's when it came.</p><p><br/></p><p>All the things I was dodging in the day started talking at once.</p><p><br/></p><p>That thing I said in March that I still overthink.</p><p>That friend I thought would stay.</p><p>That feeling that I'm behind in life and everybody else knows something I don't know.</p><p><br/></p><p>In the day I can pretend. I put earpiece, I scroll, I laugh loud for my roommates. Busy busy.</p><p><br/></p><p>But quiet does not let you pretend.</p><p><br/></p><p>Quiet will ask you — how are you, really?</p><p><br/></p><p>For a long time I hated my quiet. I thought quiet meant I was lonely. So I never let my room be quiet. Music always. Phone always.</p><p><br/></p><p>Last week I tried something. I switched everything off. No phone. Just me, chair, window open small. Breeze entering.</p><p><br/></p><p>I sat there for 10 minutes. Chest tight. Heart fast.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then after like 5 minutes, it softened. I was not fighting the thoughts again. I was just listening to them like "okay, you are here, I hear you."</p><p><br/></p><p>And for the first time, quiet did not feel scary. It felt honest.</p><p><br/></p><p>If your own room gets quiet at night and your brain starts shouting, you are not weird. You are not broken. You are human.</p><p><br/></p><p>Everybody's quiet is loud.</p><p><br/></p><p>You just have to sit small and listen.</p><p><br/></p><p>What does your quiet tell you when everywhere don quiet?</p><p><br/></p>
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