There is a particular kind of silence that unsettles me.
It is the silence after I send a message. The kind that stretches just long enough for my mind to begin its work. I tell myself I do not care. I tell myself I am busy. And then, almost without meaning to, I check again.
I have always been a person who thinks deeply. I can trace a single moment and turn it over until it yields ten meanings. This has made me observant. It has also made me restless.
Overthinking feels productive. It feels like control. If I can understand every angle, then perhaps nothing can surprise me. But lately I have begun to suspect that it is not understanding I am chasing. It is reassurance.
One of my goals for 2026 is to learn how to live without the constant need to interpret everything. To allow things to exist without assigning them meaning. To let silence be silence and to be able to be comfortable with it.
And yet, this blog was not a carefully planned project. I did not map it out. I did not build a strategy.
I woke up this morning and decided I wanted a blog.
I am spontaneous like that. Maybe because I can be impatient. I cannot stand suspense. I get tired of circling an idea and waiting for the “perfect time.” At some point, I would rather begin than keep thinking about beginning.
Maybe this is part of learning how not to overthink.
I do not know exactly what this blog will become. I just know I think a lot about love. About wanting reassurance and pretending I do not. About ambition. About my body. About ego. About wanting more than you are told is reasonable.
I do not have answers yet. But I have decided that I will no longer pretend I do not have questions.
If I am going to think deeply, I might as well think openly.
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A Conversation I Had With Myself
11:17 p.m. Two hours past my bedtime. I closed my laptop, got into bed and expected sleep to come easily. Instead my mind began doing what it does when everything becomes still. It started wandering through thoughts I usually ignore during the day. The kind that arrive when there is nothing left to distract you.…
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Goodbyes Are Never Easy
My grandmother died a few years ago. She was what I would call a young old lady. She was old, yes, but she was still herself. Still active. Still someone you expected to be there. She fell one day and broke her femur. They did surgery and after surgeries like that, they tell you to…
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Why I started Angelsete
There is a particular kind of silence that unsettles me. It is the silence after I send a message. The kind that stretches just long enough for my mind to begin its work. I tell myself I do not care. I tell myself I am busy. And then, almost without meaning to, I check again.…
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