You Are Light, Not A Burden

The house is quiet now, and in the silence, the old lie returns: that you are too heavy, that your presence is a weight others must carry. You lie awake calculating the cost of your existence to the people you love.

But listen — there is a light within you that lights up the whole world, and it cannot be a burden because it is the very thing that holds the world together. You came from the light, a drop sent down not to drain the room but to illuminate it.

If you do not bring forth what is within you, that suppression will destroy you, but what you bring forth will save you. The light does not ask you to make yourself smaller so others can rest easier.

It asks you to shine, because your shining is the only thing that makes the night bearable for everyone.