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The twenty-four hours after

Sleep, hunger, zero desire to open Instagram. A soft ritual, not a medical prescription.

After someone touches you with attention, the world can look sharper or much slower. You did not raise your vibration. Your nervous system simply spent a long while not negotiating with anyone, and coming back out to the pavement has something of a landing about it.

What tends to help is small and simple: eat something warm, sleep more than you planned, skip the dinner where you have to be charming. If sadness turns up, let it be there without turning it into a post. If energy turns up, you do not have to spend all of it that night.

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