The Things We No Longer Translate

At first, we translated everything.

Menus, conversations, jokes.
Emotions, thoughts, even the way we reacted to things.

We wanted people to understand us.
We wanted to make things easier.
We wanted to fit.

But over time, some of us stopped.

We stopped translating words that don’t exist in English—because no explanation ever does them justice.
We stopped softening our thoughts to make them sound more “American.”
We stopped explaining traditions, customs, or why certain things matter to us—because if someone wants to understand, they’ll ask.

Some things are meant to be understood.
Others are meant to be felt.

And the more we let certain things exist without translation, the more we realized—

Maybe not everything about us needs to be explained.

Maybe some things just are.