Athul Sreekumar
Journal

A week of walking without headphones

Seven evenings, no music, no podcasts. Just the street, and what it sounds like when you actually listen.

On the first evening it felt like something was missing. On the third, I heard a woman on a balcony teaching her son to whistle. By the seventh, I had four pages of notes and the beginning of a story.

The street is always telling you something. Usually we’re just too busy listening to something else.