The Quiet Truths We Keep Ignoring (Until They Catch Up)

Medium | 20.12.2025 19:49

The Quiet Truths We Keep Ignoring (Until They Catch Up)

Truths don’t disappear when ignored. They wait

Nishith Goyal

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1 hour ago

Some truths don’t arrive loudly.

They don’t announce themselves.

They don’t demand attention.

They just keep coming back.

In different forms. On different days. In different moods.

Until one day, you realise they were never lost. You were just busy.

How This Question Found Me

I wrote this in my journal early one morning. The prompt was simple:

“What truth keeps finding you until you listen?”

I didn’t think much before writing. That usually helps while writing in a journal.

What came out wasn’t one big truth. It was a set of small reminders. Things I already knew. Things I had ignored more times than I’d like to admit.

Truth #1 — Kindness Is Not Optional

The first thing I wrote was about kindness.

Not kindness as a concept. Kindness as practice.

The truth that keeps returning to me is this: