A room remembers people through the habits they leave inconveniently behind.

Traces of a person are rarely the tidy ones. It is the mug always left on the left of the sink, the door that sticks because of how someone shut it for years, the shelf arranged in an order only they understood. These are the things that come to mind later, and they are precisely the things that used to be mildly irritating.

If you live with someone, notice one of their inconvenient habits this week and try to see it as evidence rather than friction. And if someone has gone, let yourself keep one of these traces rather than correcting it.