Why Do People Go Silent?

Silence carries more voices than words ever could. When people go quiet, it is rarely empty. It may be the weight of what they are carrying, an inner struggle too tangled for language. Sometimes silence is a form of survival, a shield against questions one is not ready to answer.

Of Designs and Choices

When we hold a design, we long to bring it to life. Each of us shapes and reshapes the spaces we inhabit, sketching paths and possibilities for ourselves. Yet life often bends those designs. When this happens, we are often left to rewrite our story, and it may unfold with a different outcome, not because we are no longer ourselves, but because choices shift, and with them destiny takes different turns.

Cut Others Some Slack

We are often lenient with ourselves. When life presses hard against us, we pet our wounds in the guise of tending to them. Yet when it comes to others, we sometimes become the heartless nurse who applies the hot press without care, insisting it is for their own good.

Get Up

There are mornings when rising feels like a mountain too steep to climb. The body is heavy, the mind dull, the spirit unwilling. We have all known those days, when even the simple act of getting out of bed seems beyond us. It is not always laziness; sometimes it is the weariness of a life stretched by demands, expectations, and unseen battles.

Sound of Silence

The sound of silence is not a void. It is not an absence waiting to be filled, but a presence that waits to be noticed. It is in silence that the world begins to breathe differently. The hum of creation becomes clearer. The gentle rustle of leaves speaks, the faint rhythm of a heartbeat becomes an anchor, and the stillness of breath takes on meaning. What is drowned out by noise stands revealed in silence.

On Love and Silence

Love is one of life’s most guarded treasures. Many experience it deeply yet find it difficult to speak of, not because it lacks weight, but because its beauty often feels too sacred to share. Its stories are not always straightforward, carrying curves, pauses, and depths that make them both simple and profound.

The Scorecard Within

We measure life in many ways: money, applause, milestones. Yet without balance, even the finest harvest rots.

Don’t Sleep on Your Dreams

No matter how much you plan, whether in your head or on paper, dreams remain only beautiful sketches of an imagined Eldorado until you transform them into action.