Yesterday, I found myself in a long conversation about everything career, money, love, success, failure, marriage, children, routines, health, rest and what not. Somewhere between all those words, I realized how much of life we build to escape something deeper, the quiet space inside us that has no clear/definite answer.
Maybe all these pursuits are ways to keep ourselves entertained, to avoid the weight of that silence/void within us. We chase goals, ideas, people, and meanings not because they will complete us, but because they keep the void at bay.
The irony is, our brain feels rewarded not when it finds the answer, but when it searches for one. We are wired to seek, not to rest. The mind keeps running, chasing afraid that if it stops, it will disappear into nothingness/abyss.
But what if that nothingness isn’t as empty as it seems?
The more I observed, the more I felt that self-awareness is not an escape from the void. It’s a doorway into it. You begin to notice how your mind rushes to fill every silence. Be it with people, work or hobbies. Awareness doesn’t instantly bring peace; it just shows you the mechanism. Yet, once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Stillness, I think, is what happens when you stop fighting that void. It’s not about silencing your thoughts or meditating endlessly or giving up curiosity. it’s about allowing the silence to exist without fear. The void remains, but your resistance softens.
And then something shifts. The same space that once felt unbearable begins to feel light. The emptiness turns into a kind of quiet peace.
When the self stops searching for peace, the absence of that search is peace.
The void becomes peace not because it changes, but because you do. When you stop naming it, judging it, or running from it, what’s left is stillness itself.
Maybe that’s what it means to really know yourself . To become intimate with the void, and to find that peace was never outside of it.
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