My Calendar Is Full, But…
Loneliness in a busy life is a strange thing.
My calendar is full.
Not just full… it looks like it has a personal grudge against me. 😂
Meetings, responsibilities, errands, messages, reminders, appointments, and those endless “small things” that somehow take half the day.
My phone keeps reminding me:
“Don’t forget this.”
“Don’t miss that.”
“Your storage is almost full.”
Funny, isn’t it?
Even my phone knows I am overloaded… but my heart doesn’t have a notification saying, “Hey, you need a little attention too.”
We live in a world where being busy has almost become a personality trait.
“How are you?”
“Busy.”
And somehow, that one word has replaced every emotion — happy, tired, confused, overwhelmed, lonely… everything.
We proudly announce our packed schedules as if an empty calendar means an empty life.
But sometimes I wonder…
What if the busiest people are also the ones secretly waiting for someone to ask:
“Not your work. Not your responsibilities. How are you really?”
The strange thing about loneliness in a busy life is this:
We have hundreds of contacts saved in our phones…
but sometimes finding one person to say,
“I had a difficult day,”
feels like searching for a missing treasure map. 🗺️
We attend gatherings, reply to messages, like posts, share jokes…
yet there are moments when we feel alone in a room full of people.
Because loneliness is not always about having nobody around.
Sometimes loneliness is having nobody with whom you can remove your invisible mask.
And maybe the answer is not always finding more people.
Maybe sometimes it is slowing down enough to hear our own thoughts.
To enjoy a quiet cup of coffee.
To listen to an old song.
To take a walk without checking notifications every two minutes.
To sit with ourselves without feeling the need to “achieve” something.
Because perhaps the person we have been ignoring the most…
is the one who has been waiting patiently for our time all along.
Ourselves. 🦋🤍
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Until the Next Whisper, 🧿💕
—Rajeshwari
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