“I don’t know. On some days I just don’t really feel like speaking and it’s not like I’m particularly sad on those days, it’s just that sometimes I live all the way up in my head, watching the way that the light hits certain people’s faces or how the girl in my English class always takes a deep breath before giving an answer or how you can see in a dancer’s eyes whether they messed up the combination or how some people react when their favorite song comes through their headphones or how the boy in my science class lights up every time he gets a text from his girlfriend and I don’t know, maybe I’m the only one but I really do love being with people and talking to them, it’s just that there’s always so much noise around us that speaking feels blasphemous on certain occasions. I don’t know, maybe it’s that most people are checking their phones instead of watching the wind but I sometimes think it’s okay to just observe the wonder of the world we’re in.” ~ r.i.d., Bella Grace Magazine, Issue 25