Notes on Being Human

No. 5 NOISE

You felt something. Before your brain could identify it, your thumb opened the phone.

There was no argument. No betrayal. Just life, carrying two people in different directions without either of them choosing to swim away.

How are you? Fine. The most common lie in the English language.

You were fine all day. Then you turned the lights off.

It begins before you have language for it. The feeling of falling short. The habit you mistake for the truth.