As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.

Things left unsaid carry weight too. The encouragement you did not give, the objection you kept to yourself, the thanks you assumed was understood: each of these is a choice, even though nothing happened and nobody can point to it. Silence feels safe because it leaves no evidence. What it actually leaves is an absence in someone else’s week.

Think of one thing you have been meaning to say to someone and have not. Say it this week, plainly, and without the long preamble that usually delays it further.