🌎🌍🌏 Greetings

Language, the medium that connects.

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“Am I allowed to be here?”

The question didn’t arrive all at once.

It rehearsed itself first.

Oh my.

Is it hello?

Is it jambo?

Maybe ni hao?

Nobody ever told me what to say.

I worried the wrong word might close a door before it opened.

That a sound shaped the wrong way might give too much away.

I almost chose silence.

But while I was deciding, something else was happening.

Not correction.

Not instruction.

They were already making room.

“You already are,” came the answer—

not in words,

but in the way attention lingered.

“I don’t know how to speak like you,” I thought,

testing the sentence before letting it out.

The reply was patient.

“You don’t need to,” it said.

“We recognize the trying.”

And somehow, that was enough to begin.

🌎🌍🌏

— Planet Earth and Bhan