Maybe You Don’t Need a Fresh Start

Sometimes you don’t lose your voice. You just stop hearing it.

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I haven’t written in a while.

Not because I decided to stop.

There wasn’t a dramatic reason behind it. Life just got busy. Days passed, then a few more, and somehow the distance between one story and the next became longer than I expected.

Every now and then, I’d think about writing.

I’ll do it tomorrow.

Then tomorrow would become next week.

And eventually, I started wondering what I would even write about.

I think that’s the strange thing about stepping away from something you love.

At first, you don’t really miss it.

Then one day, you notice a thought you would have normally written down.

A sentence you would have saved.

A moment that would have become a story.

And you let it pass.

Then another one.

And another.

Until you start wondering if you’ve lost that part of yourself.