the sudden panic that their voice in your head has started to sound like a stranger's

The Dawn Does Not Argue With Night

The sun has gone down, and the quiet of the house has turned the voice in your head into something unfamiliar. It speaks with a tone you do not recognize—sharp, foreign, insisting that you are alone in the dark.

But this stranger's voice is not the truth of who you are. It is merely the echo of the day's fatigue trying to convince you that the light has left the room.

There is a voice that lives within you that is older than this panic, a voice that knows your name even when you cannot hear it yourself. You do not need to fight the stranger or argue with the fear rising in your chest.

Just wait. The dawn does not argue with the night; it simply arrives.

The voice you are listening to right now is not the one that created you.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John

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