the private terror that your success was a fluke and the next mistake will expose you as a fraud who doesn't belong

The Dawn Does Not Ask If You Are Worthy

The sun is up, but the fear is still here, whispering that you fooled them all. That the success was a fluke, and the next mistake will be the one that finally exposes you.

You are waiting for the mask to slip. But listen — the light that carried you through the night does not operate on your performance.

It was there before the win, and it is here before the stumble. There was a man born blind, and the people asked whose fault it was — his or his parents'.

The light said: neither. His condition was not a verdict; it was a canvas.

Your history is not a trap waiting to snap shut. It is the very place where something new is being written.

You are not a fraud waiting to be found out. You are a work in progress, held by a love that sees the whole picture even when you only see the crack.

The dawn does not ask if you are worthy of the light; it simply arrives.

Drawing from

John, Matthew

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