The Blank Space Within
Sometimes, we feel blank.
Perhaps because a plan had to be postponed for something more urgent. Perhaps because we kept explaining ourselves to someone who had already decided what to believe. Perhaps because dreams that once colored our lives have been safely tucked away in a drawer, waiting for a quieter day.
Sometimes, someone walks away without a goodbye, leaving behind a silence we don’t know how to fill.
And sometimes, looking at the world around us, we wonder why we plan so much when tomorrow itself feels uncertain.
Perhaps blankness is what remains when too many things compete for our attention, while the things that matter to us quietly wait.
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But we must be careful with this emptiness.
Left unattended for too long, it may lead us somewhere we never intended to go.
We don’t have to fill it immediately. We don’t need another ambitious plan, another responsibility, or another reason to keep ourselves occupied.
Perhaps we simply need to pause, open that forgotten drawer, and look at the dreams we left behind.
Some may no longer belong to us. Others may still be waiting to be lived.
The important thing is not to let the blankness choose what comes next.
An empty space is not a lost space. But what we allow to fill it matters.
