The Noise Between Silence

Silence isn’t always peaceful.Sometimes, it’s loud — so loud it drowns out everything else. You sit there, pretending everything’s fine, but inside, your mind is screaming. Not in words, just… noise. Thoughts that keep circling. Feelings you can't explain. That ache in your chest when nothing’s actually wrong, but nothing feels right either.People think silence is calm. But the truth is, the scariest moments are the ones when no one’s talking — when the room is quiet, but your head isn’t. There’s a kind of noise that lives in the things we never say. It shows up in the way someone avoids eye contact. In the message you type out but delete. In the way someone says “I’m okay” with a smile that doesn’t reach their eyes. That noise? It's real. And it hurts.

We all carry it — that invisible chaos. Some of us bury it deep, some of us fake smiles over it. But it’s there. In all of us. And honestly, it’s exhausting.You start to wonder if anyone else hears it. If anyone else lies awake at night replaying conversations.

 Overthinking. Overfeeling. Breaking down in silence?The answer is yes. ..

They do,But here’s something I’ve learned: silence doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means you're processing. Growing. Getting to know yourself. And that’s powerful. Because once you sit with the noise — really sit with it — you stop running from it. You start understanding it. And little by little, it gets quieter.