Seeds under snow aren’t dead. They’re just keeping count until it’s their turn.

Dormancy is an active state that looks exactly like absence. The thing is intact, waiting on a condition that has not arrived, and from above there is no way to tell it apart from nothing at all. Plenty of what is currently quiet in your life is in that category rather than genuinely over.

Instead of digging things up to check, look after the conditions. The friendship you have not heard from, the ambition you set down, the part of yourself that has gone quiet. Keep the ground good, stay in touch lightly, and let the timing be seasonal rather than urgent.