The Light Does Not Need Your Performance
The bathroom mirror holds the version of you that practices smiling until the muscles ache. You are rehearsing a sound that feels safe enough to release later, when the door opens and the world expects you to be whole.
But the light does not need your performance. It is already in the room, sitting on the cold tile beside you.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even the parts you are trying to hide behind a practiced laugh. You do not have to manufacture the glow.
It is already there, waiting for you to stop pretending. The mask is heavy, but the face beneath it is known.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Gospel of Thomas 77
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