Become the Signal They Seek

The sun is setting, and for the first time today, your shoulders drop. You are finally stopping.

But in this quiet, a new fear rises: that your peace looks like betrayal to the ones still drowning. You worry that by healing, you are abandoning them to the dark.

Listen closely. The light you carry is not a boat you stole; it is a lantern you lit.

And a lantern does not leave the shore by rising; it goes deeper into the night to be seen. Your healing is not a departure.

It is the only way they will ever find their way to you. You are not leaving them behind.

You are becoming the signal they are searching for. The light does not ask you to drown with them; it asks you to burn so they know where the surface is.