12.08.25: Digital Silence

The hardest silence isn’t in nature. It’s when your phone dies. You reach for it, and there’s nothing. No buzz, no glow, no escape. I once spent a week in the mountains with no signal, and the first day was brutal. By the third day, the quiet became addictive. No notifications, no scrolling, no endless feeds. Just thoughts, unfiltered. The scary part isn’t silence itself—it’s realizing how badly we avoid it. Maybe that’s why we fear boredom so much. In silence, you meet yourself. And sometimes, that’s a stranger you’ve been dodging for years.