30/09/2026
โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐โ๐
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.โ
Thatโs the point. Thatโs always been the point.
There was once a point where the sun's rays never managed to pe*****te through my monochromatic world. Etched beyond my retinas was something beyond my control; it was a shattered reality I forced myself to endure daily. Succumbing to my thoughts was a flood I could neither mitigate nor halt; it engulfed me and my own will to live. And to everything beyond that? Those were only meant to cling to my ribcage until they could no longer protect the beating heart that wished to stay. For a long time, I believed that living meant accepting the grayscale perspective around me. Deliberate effort was not in my dictionary during those times, after all, but what could I do? Nobody was available to co-author my tale as they guided me through my grief. My attempts to paint the four corners of my crumbling world always failed; no matter how hard I tried, I would only be met with the nightโs dead, onyx gaze. Realizations never occurred to me โ it never truly tried to even oscillate through the fog that obscured my mind. I already knew the fate I had written for myself, because perhaps the longest death I would ever experience was trying to stay alive.
Orโฆ so I thought.
Beneath the heavy currents, a steady pulse remained; a stubborn spark simply refused to be extinguished by the tide. Every fracture in the constellations was not a reminder of what went wrong in my life, but a blessed seam where hues of hope could slowly bleed back into the canvas. Though the gray did not disappear overnight, it was, indeed, the beautiful introduction that I needed for a new chapter in my narrative. The accusations of being my own enemy never became my ending, but the deep water I had to swim to navigate towards the shore that faced the dawn โ a dawn where futurity had always awaited me. Standing on the edge, the weight of the tides that once pushed me finally yielded into solid ground; from being coerced by my own rumination into believing the shadows were permanent, I began to realize that my thoughts were merely the weather passing through, not the sky that held the verdict of tomorrow. The sharp edges of yesterday slowly ceased to exist, becoming the very foundation that helped me get back up. Warmth crept over my shoulders where cold expanse once thrived, casting a new horizon that was no longer bounded to my dappled existence.
The future was no longer an intimidating canvas I had to kill, but an open field where I could grow once again.
It became a space where I could exist without needing justification because my presence was one of the gifts that this world had apparently anticipated.
I hope we all learn to live through and beyond our drag path, as every tomorrow awaits our perpetual purpose in this ponderous world.
๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐. โค๏ธโ๐ฉน
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โ๐ป: J.Y. Ramirez, ๐ซ
๐ผ๏ธ: K. Beltran