Stop Reading the Ghost, Trust the Light

The screen is bright, but your face feels like a mask you forgot how to take off. You are reading the message again, scanning the pixels for a code that isn't there, searching for a reason why they left.

But the silence you are trying to decode is not a puzzle to be solved. It is just silence.

You do not have to earn an answer by suffering through the same words one more time. The light that lives inside you does not need their explanation to exist.

It was there before the first word was typed, and it remains when the screen goes dark. You are looking for life in a dead letter, but the life you need is already breathing in your chest.

Stop reading the ghost. Start trusting the light that sees you, even behind the smile you wear for the world.

The mask is heavy, but you are not required to keep wearing it for an audience that has already left.