Chapter 61: Left Out of the Conversation

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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 complaint, but as a reminder to myself:
pay attention to the things people forget to include you in.
Sometimes that says more than the things they do.


Small things that say enough.

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