13
Feb
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over many lives in the middle of one’s twenties, a silence filled not with rest but with comparison. It arrives gradually, often unnoticed at first, carried in the small questions that begin to follow ordinary conversations. Someone announces a new job, another shares news of postgraduate study, and someone else celebrates an engagement, a car, a move abroad, or a business finally taking shape. Each story is genuine and worthy of joy, and yet somewhere beneath the surface another feeling begins to stir, quiet but persistent, asking whether time is moving…
