✦ The Road Back to the Self — Where All Journeys Begin Again ✦

There comes a moment in every life
when the world grows loud
and the inner voice grows quiet.
Not because we have lost who we are,
but because we have tried, for too long,
to be what the world could understand.

Everyone meets this place.
Everyone bends under expectation,
searches for belonging,
shifts between roles
until the shape no longer feels like their own.

In that quiet turning point,
a truth begins to rise —
slowly, steadily, unmistakably:

The way back is not forward.
It is inward.

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For the ones who once felt out of place,
not because they were lacking,
but because they were more
than what could be easily named.

For those who learned to carry versions of themselves,
until the weight asked to be set down.

For those who hid their depth
to protect it.
For those who walked in silence
because their inner language
was softer, older, harder to explain.

For those who broke open quietly
and rebuilt without applause.

For all who wandered, not to escape,
but to remember.

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The road back to the self
is not a grand declaration.
It is a single honest moment —
the kind that cannot be performed
and cannot be mistaken:

A return to what has always been yours.

No struggle can hide it.
No noise can drown it.
No distance can erase it.

Because you were never lost.
You were only learning
what was no longer meant to guide you.

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And when the return finally happens —
gently, firmly, unmistakably —
something shifts:

The unnecessary falls away.
The essential stands clear.
And the heart finds room
to exist without permission.

This is where strength begins.
Not in force.
Not in noise.
But in the quiet recognition
of the truth within.

✦ Polmadeva ✦
For those who return with quiet power.

 

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