Day 17 – In the Quiet

13 Aug 2025

The Spotify song for tonight is one of my all-time favorites — Sound of Silence by Disturbed. Silence has always been, and will always be, my “friend.” If you listen hard enough, and long enough, you’ll realize silence speaks. You can hear the truths between the breaths, the thoughts hidden in the pauses, and the feelings that words can’t quite hold.

There are nights when silence is louder than thunder.
Not the kind of silence that comes from an empty room or a turned-off phone, but the kind that fills the spaces between thoughts — the kind that sits in your chest like a weight you can’t shift.

Sometimes, the most important messages are the ones never spoken. The pause before someone answers. The glance that lingers just a second too long. The way their hands find something else to do instead of meeting yours.
Words can be crafted to hide truths, but silence has no filter. It is a raw, unpolished thing. It tells on us when we try to keep our feelings hidden.

We are taught to listen to words, to wait for explanations, apologies, promises. But life has been teaching me something different — that the signs are always there if you’re willing to notice them.
It’s in the hesitations, the distance that wasn’t there before, the way laughter doesn’t reach someone’s eyes anymore. It’s in the conversations that used to spill into the night but now end before they’ve even begun.

Silence speaks.
It says, I can’t tell you the truth.
It says, I’m not who you think I am anymore.
It says, This is already over, even if I can’t bring myself to say the words out loud.

And maybe the hardest lesson is this: learning to hear it without demanding the sound. To trust yourself enough to read the signs and believe them. To understand that sometimes, protecting your peace means accepting that you’ve already been told everything you need to know — without a single word being said.

🎵 Spotify Pairing:
Disturbed — Sound of Silence

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Cj2vqUwlJVG27gJrun92y


🖋 Journal Reflection:
- Think of a time when someone’s silence told you more than their words.
- What signs did you notice?
- If you had trusted those signs earlier, what might you have done differently?
- How can you better honor your intuition when words and actions don’t align?

—Stacey