immediately, my mind closed the hatch that i use to peek, from time to time, at the world around me.
silence followed and my thoughts screamed loudly, deafening in the stock-still void: "but what if the only thing my voice is telling me to do is shut up?"
8.1.18 / 21.21 / inspired by this quote: "listen to your own voice, your own soul. too many people listen to the noise of the world instead of listening instead of themselves"