I Replied With a Heart Emoji Instead of Real Feeling

Dear Delyara, Someone sent a kind message. A proper one. Something that deserved words back. And all I could manage was a red heart. Not because I didn’t care. Because I did. Because I had no room left to become articulate, warm, expressive, or emotionally available in a way that matched what I genuinely felt. That made me sad. I think sometimes people imagine silence means indifference. So often it’s the opposite. Too much feeling, too little energy to shape it properly. Tonight, my gratitude came out as one red heart. That was all I had.