“It gets easier to let go, I think, the more that you learn to grow without the people you believed with every part of you would stick around”

“Have you let go though?”

“I’m learning to-“

She takes a pause, as the tears she’s trying so hard to hold back keep building. Grinding her teeth in an effort to hold back the sob that’s begging to be freed.

“-it’s hard to let go when you still have pie...

Silence is loud. Silence is all the thoughts you wish you could quiet. It’s all the feelings you wish you had the words to say. Silence is lonely. When you’re surrounded by silence it’s only you. There are no people around nor animals and insects creeping about. There’s no water rushing down from a stream or dripping from a faucet. There’s no wind howling and rustling trees, nor an AC churning and...