ShortEditorial Dispatch

When You Don't Recognise Your Reflection

The reader has drifted from self through compromise, survival, image.

Abraham of London
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You look in the mirror.

And you don't recognise the person looking back.

Not physically.
But something is different.

The person you used to be —
the one with fire, with conviction, with clarity —
feels like a stranger now.

You're not sure when it happened.
It was gradual.
A series of small compromises, small survivals, small performances.


Drift doesn't announce itself.
It just deposits you somewhere you never intended to be.

This week, write two sentences:

"I miss…"
"I became…"

Be honest about what you've lost.
Be honest about how you got here.

You can't return to yourself
until you admit you've been away.

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