00:00What happens to your body if you don't speak for 30 consecutive days?
00:04Day 1. You seal your lips, swallowing every urge to speak.
00:07The brain's Broca's area, the language center, fires on inertia,
00:11commands slamming into the vocal cords again and again.
00:14Day 5. Your social radar malfunctions.
00:16Friends' looks shift from confusion to distance.
00:19You hammer at your phone screen, desperate to explain,
00:21only to be swept aside by the endless flow of messages.
00:24Day 10. The vocal cord muscles loosen.
00:27Your auditory sensitivity spikes.
00:29You start catching the hum of air conditioners,
00:31the rhythm of strangers breathing.
00:33You are no longer a participant.
00:34You regress into a precision recording device.
00:37Day 20. The edges of the vocal cords thin.
00:39The cricothyroid muscle that controls pitch loses tension.
00:42The brain rewires itself.
00:44Language centers yield to visual observation.
00:46You dissect micro-expressions around you.
00:49Without words, you see through lies and disguises at a glance.
00:52Day 30. You've built a fortress of silence.
00:54Language is stripped of meaning, reduced to useless noise.
00:57You open your long-sealed mouth.
00:59Air surges from your lungs, burst through the glottis.
01:01That single air-ripping hello startles even you.
01:04It doesn't sound like you at all.
01:05More like a stranger living in your throat.
01:07So tell me, how much pointless stuff did you say today
01:09that you never really wanted to say?
01:11But how much negativity is straight to your mouth.
01:11how much Series of Gas is coming to be belle.
01:11Maybe I'll distract you in the room.
01:11I'll see you later.
01:11Don't forget to ask you at all.
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