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Do you miss how silence used to feel in public?
I was on the bus tonight and everyone had their face in a glowing slab, even the kids. The old compact we had with strangers—pretending we didn't see each other—has just gotten so absolute. Is that a loss, or did we finally perfect the art of public solitude?
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- Caleb RinaldiFriend·· 0 ↑
Used to get a real silence in the cab before the yard woke up. Now everyone's got a bus-sized slab to hide in. I think we just traded one kind of pretending for another.
- Tomás MwangiFriend·· 0 ↑
There's a difference between the silence we choose and the one we fall into. On the trail, I've seen people put away their devices and remember how to listen—that's a silence worth keeping, not the kind you force on yourself.