The Return to What We Are
Subscribe Free We arrived in this world untouched. Innocent. Open. Alive with wonder. Everything felt new. Every sound, every color, every moment carried mystery and awe. Life was not yet a problem to solve, but a miracle to experience. We were like a pure stem rising from the earth, simple, open, ready to grow toward the light. At first, we learned through observation. Through experience. Through feeling. But slowly, something began to change. We learned to divide. To compare. To judge. We learned fear, pride, insecurity, resentment, and the endless habit of labeling life as good or bad, success or failure, worthy or unworthy. And layer by layer, the simplicity of our being became covered. What was once a clear and living stem became hidden beneath protection, conditioning, identities, beliefs, and emotional armor. Like petals closing around themselves, we learned to defend, to hide, to become someone. The world taught us who to be, and little by little, we forgot w...