"The Days That Break You"
When the Ground Beneath Me Changed Some mornings begin with sunlight, coffee, and hope. Then some mornings begin with silence—so heavy that even the walls seem to understand something is wrong before you do. Yesterday was one of those mornings. I woke up as I always do. There was nothing unusual about it. I reached for my phone, still half asleep, opened my emails without thinking much, and within a few seconds, it felt as though the entire day had collapsed before it had even begun. Sometimes life does not knock before entering. It simply walks in, sits beside you, and changes everything with a few lines of text. I kept staring at the screen, reading the same words over and over again, hoping they would somehow change. They never did. For a few moments, I just sat there. Motionless. Silent. Unable to process what had happened. Then the tears came. There was no one at home. No one to ask me what was wrong. No one to tell me that everything would be alright. The empty h...
