Who are you now?

We often romanticize new beginnings-as if they arrive with fireworks or some grand revelation. But in reality, they’re usually quiet. Subtle. They don’t announce themselves. They slip in through ordinary moments-a conversation that shifts your thinking, a goodbye that you didn't expect to last forever, or even just the realization that you no longer feel the same way about something that once defined you.

New beginnings, I’ve found, are less about starting over and more about becoming. They emerge from loss, discomfort, reflection-from those deeply personal turning points where something within you has quietly changed, and there’s no going back to who you were before.

Sometimes, it’s not the act of beginning again that’s difficult-but the gentle mourning of the version of you that once existed. Yet in that space, in that in-between of what was and what’s becoming, there is something incredibly sacred. A quiet kind of strength. A resilience that isn't loud, but steady.

And maybe that’s the truest kind of beginning-the one that doesn’t rush you but meets you where you are, and simply asks, “Who are you now?”

Krishnendu.P aka The Quiet Quill

Instagram: @thequietquill._