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18/02/26
It was not about the tea.
It never is.
The cup sat there longer than it should have. Steam had already faded, but the warmth lingered—like something unspoken between two thoughts.
Across the table, nothing moved. No phone. No hurry. Just a moment stretching quietly, asking for nothing.
Someone once said that peace doesn’t arrive with noise. It slips in unnoticed, sits beside you, and waits for you to recognise it.
Maybe that’s why we miss it so often.
We keep searching for something larger, louder, more defined. And in doing so, we overlook these small, almost invisible pauses where life is simply… enough.
He later told me, “That day, nothing extraordinary happened. But I remember it clearly.”
Strange, isn’t it?
How the simplest moments stay longer than the grand ones.
Perhaps because they don’t try too hard.
They just remain.
May the day feel lighter than it looks, and quieter than it sounds.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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