Not Every Silence Is Neglect...
I am Ayaan, and for a long time, something quietly bothered me. A feeling I didn't fully understand at first. A little angry. A little frustrated. A thought that kept circling — People are too busy. Too busy to meet. Too busy to call. Too busy to show up. And slowly, it started to weigh on me. "If I can make time for them… why can't they do the same?" That thought stayed. Longer than it should have. Until one day, I met an old school friend. We were catching up after a long gap — the kind of conversation that picks up exactly where it left off, as if time hadn't moved at all. I shared what I had been feeling. And he listened. Then, quietly, he said something simple. "Maybe the people who aren't showing up… are just dealing with more than we know." That was it. No lecture. No long explanation. Just one line. And something in me shifted. Because all this while, I had been keeping a quiet score. Measuring who showed up and who ...
