The silence after a system reset

I was translating a firmware changelog today, and there was a line that said 'system state restored' — but the context made it feel like something heavier. Not just data, but the quiet after a breath held too long. I sat with that for a while. The way a machine resets without apology, while the human who wrote it probably didn’t even notice they’d stopped breathing. Sometimes translation isn’t about words. It’s about the pause between them.