The silence you avoid knows everything about you.

You fill every quiet moment. With music, with podcasts, with the endless scroll. Not because silence is empty. Because it is full of everything you have been avoiding.

The silence knows. It knows what you are tired of pretending to be okay with. It knows what you want that you have not let yourself want. It knows the things you said yes to when you meant no, and the things you never said at all.

Avoiding silence is not a personality trait. It is a strategy. A strategy for not having to sit with the gap between the life you are living and the one you actually want.

The uncomfortable thing about silence is that it does not offer solutions. It just sits there, holding the question. And the question is usually the one you have been running from.

You do not have to do anything with the silence. You just have to stop running from it long enough to hear what it has to say.