JULIET'S MUSINGS

14. The Quiet Truth of Who I Am

For much of my life, I thought I was an extrovert. I was sociable, animated in groups, often the one to keep a conversation alive. I’d learned how to read a room, how to bring energy, how to be what others seemed to need. It didn’t occur to me that this was more performance than preference.

But something was quietly eroding. After a day full of people, I’d come home feeling tired. Thin-skinned and brittle. I needed silence like oxygen. And slowly, I began to notice: the moments that truly nourished me weren’t the ones filled with chatter and company, but the ones where I was alone - walking slowly through the woods, sitting in stillness, writing, listening inward. Even catching up with admin!

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