Explore how a senior introvert’s first and last best companion can be Journaling Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash Introduction: When Life Becomes Quiet I have crossed a milestone. I am now a senior citizen. This phase has not arrived gently. It has come carrying silence. My parents are no more. Some of my siblings are gone. A few of my peers have quietly left the world. There was a time when people waited hours to meet me. Today, many don’t even have a few minutes to talk. Not because they are unkind—but because I am no longer “needed” the way I once was. My children, rightly, give priority to their own children. I, who once stood strong through many battles, now often feel uncertain, anxious, and sometimes even irrelevant. In one honest sentence: I feel like a phone without charge—present, but not fully connected. And yet… there is still light at the end of the tunnel. ✓There are reserved seats for me in buses and trains.…