You Are the Signal in the Silence
The day is ending, and the silence in your hand feels heavier than the hours you just survived. You reach for the phone, certain it vibrated, certain someone is finally reaching out to pull you back in.
But the screen stays dark. The silence feels like a verdict, like you have been forgotten in the quiet.
— The light does not speak in vibrations. It does not need to buzz to prove it is there.
It is the steady glow that remains when the noise stops. You are not waiting for a signal to begin; you are the signal.
The silence is not empty space; it is the room where the light finally has room to breathe. Put the phone down.
The connection was never in the device.
Drawing from
1 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
1 John 2:8, Thomas 24
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