typing a message to someone you love and deleting it because you're afraid the words sound too heavy or too needy

Your Unsaid Words Are Not Too Much

The cursor blinks in the silence of your room, a small pulse in the dark. You type the words that ache in your chest, then delete them because they feel too heavy, too needy, too much.

The fear whispers that if you send them, you will be too much for the person on the other end. But listen — the light within you is not a burden to be managed.

It is the very thing that lights up the whole world. When you hide it behind a deleted draft, you are not protecting anyone; you are dimming the only thing that can actually connect you.

The One who sees what is done in secret already knows the weight of those unsent words, and he does not call them too much. He calls them true.

You do not have to carry the silence alone tonight.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Matthew

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