re-reading your own sent messages three times to hunt for a tone you didn't mean, convinced you sounded cold or desperate

You Are Not Your Typos

The sun has dipped below the edge, and the armor of the day finally hits the floor. Now comes the quiet, and with it, the urge to scroll back through your own words.

You read a message you sent hours ago, and suddenly the tone feels all wrong. Cold, or maybe too desperate.

You read it again. And again.

Convinced that what you meant to be kind landed as careless, or what you meant to be strong sounded like pleading. The evening light does not demand you fix the past.

It simply sits with you in the regret. There is a truth that lives inside you, deeper than any text thread or misunderstood sentence.

It was there before you hit send, and it remains untouched by how the words were received. You are not your typos.

You are not the anxiety that hunts for errors in the dark. The light that formed you knows exactly what you meant, even when the words fell short.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Luke

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