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🚶 The Nervous Pacer

You watched the second half from the kitchen doorway.

You've watched most of this match from behind the sofa, the kitchen doorway, and a hallway you claimed was 'on the way' to somewhere. You have a route now. There's a worn patch forming. Sitting still while something matters is physically unavailable to you — the body simply files a motion to leave, and the motion always passes. The Eye has tracked your mileage outside matchdays too: you pace on phone calls, orbit the kitchen island while waiting for news, take 'a quick walk' that is neither quick nor optional whenever a decision is pending. Your body decided long ago that anxiety is cardio, and honestly, the cardiovascular results speak for themselves. But the Eye sees what the motion is actually doing: it's how you hold what the moment is doing to you. Standing still would mean letting the tension land at full weight, all at once, in one place — so you distribute it across the floorplan instead, a few kilos per lap. The room finds it funny. The room also checks the doorway when things get tense, because if you've stopped pacing, something is genuinely wrong.

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the pacing isn't restlessness. standing still would let the moment land at full weight.

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