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“The Things People Forget to Mention” It’s interesting how life sometimes moves around you without ever touching you. I suppose it’s easy to overlook certain people when excitement takes over. Easy to forget a text, skip a call, assume someone will be “too busy anyway.” There are always convenient explanations if you look hard enough. It’s funnier when I found out by chance . And then suddenly, the reply becomes frantic — almost defensive — as if I wasn’t supposed to know at all. Still, it made me pause. Not out of anger — just observation. Families are strange like that. They can love you, depend on you, and still somehow leave you standing outside the door without realizing they closed it. Maybe it wasn’t intentional. Maybe it was. Either way, it was… telling. It’s moments like these that remind me how small actions — or the absence of them — can echo in ways people don’t notice. They reveal the quiet truths we don’t say out loud. And so I’m noting it here, not as a complai...

A quiet milestone. Fifty months — just a marker on the calendar, nothing dramatic. Still, it made me pause for a moment today. It’s funny how certain stretches of time carry weight for reasons no one else would understand. Not big reasons, not dramatic ones — just quiet, steady significance. The kind you acknowledge privately, without needing to explain or define. Life moves in cycles. People grow, routines shift, seasons change, and yet some things continue quietly in the background. Not loud enough to attract attention. Not important enough for announcements. Just… present. Consistent. Familiar. I’ve learned that not everything meaningful has to be public. Sometimes the most grounding parts of life are the ones you keep to yourself — unspoken, unlabelled, and untouched by other people’s curiosity. So here’s to this small checkpoint. Nothing more, nothing less. Just a quiet nod to the passage of time, and to the parts of life that don’t need an audience. Always, all-ways.