AFTER THE NOISE
On Life After the Illusion
Volume 4 of the series "Between the Years - Texts on Orientation"
What remains when the pressure eases.
When nothing needs to be explained anymore, nothing needs to be proven.
When functioning comes to an end – and something quieter begins.
“After the Noise” is the fourth and final volume of the series “Between the Years”.
It continues where many stories end –
and begins precisely where orientation no longer arises from goals, but from letting go.
This book does not tell of a new beginning,
but of what comes after.
🔹 What Volume 4 is about
• life when ambition, roles and expectations lose their power
• letting go of structures that once provided support
• stillness, reduction and a life without constant self-justification
• closeness without purpose, decisions without urgency, and trust without promises
🔹 What this book is not
• ❌ Not a classic guide
• ❌ No instruction for self-optimisation
• ❌ No book of solutions or quick answers
🔹 What the reader takes from this book
• orientation instead of instructions
• relief from inner pressure
• a deeper understanding of transitions, losses and quiet new beginnings
• the experience that not everything has to become “new” in order to feel right
✨ This book is for people who
• no longer want to become louder in order to be heard
• sense that speed, success and explanations are not everything
• are looking for a calm, honest view of their own lives
“After the Noise” concludes the four-part series “Zwischen den Jahren” –
not with a goal, but with a state.
Still. Manageable. Flexible.
And perhaps that is enough.