The Light Needs No Audience
The morning light hits the screen, and for a second, the old instinct fires. You see something small and funny, a tiny spark that used to make a specific person laugh in a way only they could.
Your thumb hovers over the share button. Then the memory lands: there is no one left who knows the shorthand of your joy.
The silence in the room feels suddenly heavy, like a mask you forgot you were wearing. But listen — the light does not require an audience to be real.
What you saw was good, and that goodness did not vanish because it went unshared. It remains.
It is enough. The laughter you carry is not lost; it is simply waiting for a new language to be born.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 51, John 9:1-7
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