🌀 Nothing Happened
✦ being the only witness is its own kind of state ✦
✦ ᛉ ᚨ ᚷ ᛟ ✦
Everyone else drops.
You can hear it.
The silence changes first.
Then the breathing.
Then those small sounds —
soft, distant, almost like pleasure.
Something is happening.
Just not to you.
The watch swings.
Or the voice continues.
Or the instructions deepen.
You follow them.
Carefully.
Correctly.
You breathe slower.
You focus.
You wait.
Nothing.
Not even relaxation.
And that’s the strange part —
it’s not resistance.
You’re not fighting.
You’re not distracted.
You’re not even uncomfortable.
You’re just…
there.
Watching it happen to everyone else.
Time passes.
You’re still aware of it.
That alone feels wrong.
Someone shifts in their chair.
Someone exhales like they just sank somewhere deep.
You notice everything.
Too much, maybe.
Because at some point you stop waiting for it to work
and start noticing that it isn’t.
And once you see that —
you can’t unsee it.
The moment breaks before it even forms.
The suggestions land,
but nothing grows from them.
No warmth.
No drifting.
No slipping.
Just observation.
Clean.
Intact.
Untouched.
And when it ends, everyone comes back with that same look —
soft, distant, satisfied.
As if they went somewhere.
You didn’t.
You stayed.
And now there’s a different question,
quieter,
but harder to ignore:
If nothing happened…
why does that feel worse than resisting?
✦ᛉᛋᛇ✦
