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seeing a photo of yourself from a year ago and realizing you don't recognize the person smiling in it because you had to kill that version to survive

The Light Stayed When You Changed

When You Don't Know Who You Are

You scroll past a photo from a year ago and freeze. The person smiling back at you feels like a stranger, someone you had to bury to make it through the winter.

That version of you didn't die because they were weak. They died because they were no longer large enough to hold the weight you were carrying.

You did not lose the light when you shed that skin. The kingdom is inside you, not trapped in the face you used to wear.

What you are now is not a ruin. It is the only shape strong enough to survive.

The light did not leave when the smile faded. It stayed, waiting for you to recognize it in the quiet.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John

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