The weight of unspoken words
Silence can also have weight. Especially when we pretend to be light with it for a long time.
There are words that stay in your throat for so long that they start to feel like stones.
You keep wearing them, and they hurt more and more.
However, the body feels that something has not been said, unfinished, remaining in increasing stress.
Unspoken words do not disappear just because they are not given the right to be heard.
They often settle into tension, fatigue, a strange distance from the world and silence, thus accumulating their energy.
A person can function properly, respond, smile and simply "do his thing".
However, underneath there is a conversation going on that never came to fruition, which can take the most strength.
Silence is sometimes needed to protect against chaos, but it can also be a shelter that becomes lacking in air over time.
Not every word needs to be said at once, and not every truth needs an audience when noticed.
However, there is a difference between being calm and frozen.
The heart usually knows the difference before the tongue.
Sometimes the first utterance does not take place in front of another person, but in a notebook, in an empty room, in a whispered sentence without an addressee, in the evening anxiety.
This can also be the beginning of releasing the burden, and words do not have to immediately repair the world to stop destroying us from the inside, because they just need to find a safe place where we will no longer pretend that they do not exist.
What price does your interior pay for external peace built on silence?