Chapter 2 — The Shadows I Carried
I moved through life like someone walking inside a fragile dream. Silent. Alert. Inhabited.
I felt other people’s emotions like waves passing through my body.
I carried weights with no names. I lived with a shadow that wasn’t mine.
Video games were my secret doors.
My parallel worlds. My breaths.
I got lost to survive.
I stayed quiet to exist.
I smiled to avoid disappearing.
Then one day, a tiny light slipped through the crack.
A sentence. A silence. A sign.
The beginning of another breath.
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