What's that sound?
A moment to pause. / Issue 1,532
Oh, hi friends!
What’s that sound?
It’s the book your friend told you about last weekend – what was the name of it again? It’s the howl of the news, morning, noon, and night. It’s the unfinished projects, the drops of dreams, the lingerers you push from yesterday to today.
It’s the sound of trying too hard at the wrong thing or not enough at the right thing. It’s the broken promise to yourself and the fierce recommitment and the tiny leap between the two. It’s the sound of a chip being obliterated between your molars.
It’s the sound of waves, of grief, of ambition. It’s the weight of expectations. It’s the harsh crackle of Instagram and the echo of what you haven’t finished or began. It’s your cat, meowing in the morning, looking for pets.
What’s that sound? Only the tiny business of life.
Tomorrow: new sounds, new hopes, and maybe, if we’re lucky, the small gift of silence in a noisy world.
