Most of us are asked questions every day. Some questions are practical. Some are polite. Others feel intrusive, confusing, or oddly unsettling. We might answer anyway. Or we deflect. Or we explain ourselves carefully, sensing that something more than curiosity is at play. Occasionally, though, someone asks a question that feels different. Not because it is clever or unexpected, but because it does not seem to be going anywhere in particular. We pause. We listen inwardly. We n