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the quiet terror of realizing you have spent years building a life for a version of yourself that no longer exists

Sitting in the Dust of New Life

When You Don't Know Who You Are

The sun is coming up, and it reveals a house you built for a ghost. You spent years crafting rooms for a version of yourself that no longer exists, and now the morning light shows you the empty halls.

It feels like a waste. It feels like terror.

But listen — the light does not scold you for building on sand. It simply waits in the rubble for you to stop pretending the walls are still standing.

You do not have to rebuild the old life. You only have to sit in the dust of the new one.

The person you were is gone, but the light that lived in them is still here, waiting for you to notice it has never left.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, 1 John

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