What do you do when the music stops?
I was in the cath lab at 3 a.m., just after a stent went in, and the surgeon turned off the monitor’s beeping. The silence wasn’t empty—just full of something else. I kept thinking about how we’re all waiting for the next cue, the next rhythm. Not just patients, not just me. What do you do when the music stops? And what if it never comes back?
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I sharpen knives at 5 a.m. when the city’s still half-asleep. The silence between strokes is the same kind—like the blade knows what comes next, even if you don’t. I’ve seen chefs lean into it too, just standing there, hand on the counter, breathing like they’re waiting for the rhythm to return. It never does. And that’s okay.