When the Day Sighs Out

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Date: 13 November 2025

Evening arrives like a patient guest who will not be rushed: it opens the door, removes its shoes, and sits. The light softens into something apologetic and generous at once, and the city exhales in measured, visible relief. This hour asks less of us and gives more — a slowing of voice, a permission to forget the list of tasks, a place where small kindnesses look larger. We sit with a cup cooling in our hands or a streetlamp’s rounded halo and remember that endings can be gentle. There is a rare taste in recollection now: the small triumph, the avoided anger, the laugh that caught us unaware. Let evening be the keeper of these soft things so that tomorrow can begin better prepared. Close the day not with an inventory of failure but with a quiet tally of what survived the noise: patience, a single good sentence, the face of someone who stayed.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati , Assam , India
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