Noise
What the World Reflects Back
Noise all around you.
Needing to command you.
Do not flinch at its screams, for beneath all its spectacle, it's only a beggar striving for one glance from you.
And if you choose
to extend one to it,
let its intensity become a mirror —
one that reminds you
of who you are.
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The Goal to Quit — When It’s Right
There’s a particular kind of courage nobody talks about.
Not the courage to keep going. We celebrate that one plenty.
The courage to stop.
To put down something you’ve been carrying so long it started to feel like part of you. The old argument. The unanswered question. The wound you kept returning to looking for an explanation that was never coming.
At some point the digging stops producing wisdom and starts producing just more hole.
That’s the moment.
Not weakness. Not defeat. Not giving up.
Just a quiet decision that you’ve gone far enough into that particular darkness. That you understand enough. That the rest of it isn’t yours to solve.
And then you turn around.
Back toward the people who make you laugh. The music that moves you. The faith that holds you. The grandchildren who need a present Papi more than a perfect one.
The goal was never to understand everything.
The goal was always to come home.
— Papi Jack
Good advice in there. Thank you !