Only You Can Taste It

Make yourself a hot drink tonight. Before you drink it, hold the cup with both hands and wait until you can feel exactly how warm it is. Not burning, not gone cold. Just that.

There is an old saying: when you drink water, only you know if it is warm or cold. Someone can stand right next to you and still not know. They can guess. They can tell you what they think. The taste is yours.

Your school day was yours too. Nobody else drank it.

What was today actually like for you — not for the group chat, for you?

A grade measures the answer. It does not measure the day you had.

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