One thing I’ve slowly learned during these months is that the noise in my mind has layers. There’s the obvious noiseβ€”the to-do lists, the self-reminders, the internal commentary. But beneath that is something softer and stranger: the half-thoughts, the gut feelings, the subtle restlessness that shows up before I can name it.

For a long time, I thought the goal was to silence that deeper noise. But I’ve started to see it differently. That confusion, that tension, that quiet humβ€”maybe it isn’t something to eliminate. Maybe it’s part of how my mind processes the world, even when I don’t fully understand what it’s trying to say.