1/🧵 The Noise I Had to Outrun to Find Myself
A lot of people will not say it out loud, but deep down, they are afraid of silence. And I am not talking about the usual late-night silence or when the environment is silent. But the deeper kind of silent. The silence when someone purposely decides to lock in and hear their own thoughts out loud, like when you can hear the sound of a ticking clock. At some point, I ran away from this too. All my free moments used to be filled with one distraction or another. From music to scrolling to watching movies to chatting, or anything that can just distract me. But when I looked at the past, my take was that I was running. Not from anything external in particular. But from what is sitting inside of me quietly.