Silence makes certain questions impossible to keep postponing.

Certain questions can be outrun by activity, and only by activity. Whether this is the life you want, whether something needs to change, whether you are all right: none of these can be addressed while there is always something making noise. Silence does not raise them so much as stop suppressing them.

If a question keeps arriving in quiet moments, treat its persistence as information rather than as an intrusion. Give it a deliberate hour rather than letting it ambush you. Written down and looked at directly, it is usually less frightening than it was when you were avoiding it.