Have you ever met someone and felt like you've known them forever?
Maybe you were in a tiny jazz bar in Shinjuku, crammed between strangers, and your eyes locked with someone across the room — and somehow, without a single word, you both knew.
I don’t remember exactly when I started fearing silence
Perhaps it was when smartphones became an extension of my hand. Maybe it was when work email notifications started intruding on the dinner table. Or perhaps it was when I realized that my first reflex every morning—
