I wanted to stop hearing everyone else in my head

Dear Delyara, By evening I could still hear too many people. Not literally. Their tone, their opinions, their expectations, their unfinished energy, their questions, their moods. All of it seemed to have stayed in my head after the conversations ended, like little echoes competing with my own thoughts for space. I hate how permeable I can feel after a full day around people. Tonight I needed silence not because I had nothing to say, but because there were too many voices still inside me that weren’t mine.