The Laugh You Cannot Manufacture

The middle of the day is when the mask feels heaviest, especially when you hear a recording of your own laugh and realize it sounds like a stranger. You wonder if you have forgotten how to be real, if the joy you once felt was just a performance you can no longer sustain.

But the light does not ask you to manufacture a sound you cannot find. It asks you to remember where you came from before the world taught you to hide.

You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord. That origin is still inside you, even if the laugh feels stuck in your throat.

There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. If it does not shine right now, it is not because the light is gone.

It is because you are looking at the recording instead of the source. The laugh will return when you stop trying to earn it and start remembering who you are.