You Were Made to Expand

The house is quiet now, and in this stillness, the truth finally catches up with you. You spent years folding yourself smaller, carving away pieces of your soul to fit into a space that was never meant to hold you.

It feels like panic because the mask is slipping, and the person underneath is waking up. But listen — the darkness has not overcome the light that lives inside you.

That light was there before you began to shrink, and it is still there, untouched by the walls you tried to hide behind. You do not need to make yourself small enough for a room that cannot contain you.

The light within you is greater than the one who is in the world. You were made to expand, not to disappear.

The quiet is not empty; it is the space where you finally stop hiding.