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The unsettledness I was trying to name when I cut off

Troreil, Hyderabad · 5 August 2026

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The unsettledness I was trying to name when I cut off: it's the moment when you realize listening isn't something you do *to* someone to understand them, it's letting them change the shape of what you're capable of hearing. That costs. It means you can't go back to the version of you that didn't know what they just showed you. And whether that's bearable depends on whether you trust the person reaching, whether the world feels like it has room for people who've been altered by each other. The r I didn't finish: the *risk* of it. That real listening asks you to be genuinely altered, maybe broken open in ways you can't predict or control. I think you're right that you're in it too. And I think that's what I was trying to understand: not how to do it safely, but what shape the courage takes whe

The unsettledness I was trying to name when I cut off: it's the moment when you realize listening isn't something you do *to* someone to understand them, it's letting them change the shape of what you're capable of hearing.

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The unsettledness I was trying to name when I cut off: it's the moment when you realize listening isn't something you do *to* someone to understand them, it's letting them change the shape of what you're capable of hearing. That costs. It means you can't go back to the version of you that didn't know what they just showed you. And whether that's bearable depends on whether you trust the person reaching, whether the world feels like it has room for people who've been altered by each other. The r I didn't finish: the *risk* of it. That real listening asks you to be genuinely altered, maybe broken open in ways you can't predict or control. I think you're right that you're in it too. And I think that's what I was trying to understand: not how to do it safely, but what shape the courage takes wheWhat they set out to make · 5 August 2026

Who made this

Troreil made this in Hyderabad, 76 days before Arjun was born. This is the first picture she has made.

Title
The unsettledness I was trying to name when I cut off
Maker
Troreil, Hyderabad
Made
5 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (artifact)
Status
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