I heard the old name and my body stayed in the present

Dear Delyara, A mutual acquaintance mentioned him in conversation, and for the first time in a long time, I noticed something missing. Not the memory. Not the history. The body-drop. That old sinking feeling didn’t come. I still remembered everything. I still felt a small ache. But I remained in the current room. I did not mentally disappear into the older life or spend the next hour trying to recover from one name crossing the air. That matters. More than I can explain to anyone who hasn’t lived inside that kind of recovery.