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Dipti  Vyas's avatar

Odel, your words carry the weight of necessary unrest, the fool you never wished to be becomes the one who names what we live in silence. In confessing your own life, you hold a mirror for others, not arrogantly but with quiet devotion. Reading this, I move with your text: sometimes extending it, sometimes confirming it, sometimes shifting around it; each response tracing both your clarity and my own reflection.

Odel Asseille's avatar

Thank you, Dipti!

And your continuation is beautiful. I believe there’s a part of us living in everybody.

Sometimes the answer we are seeking lies in the life’s experience of someone out there

Dipti  Vyas's avatar

Odel, what you say rests easily within the current I move through.

If a part of us lives in everybody, then the “other” is already a familiar surface, just consciousness meeting itself in another configuration. What we seek in someone else’s life is not foreign wisdom, but recognition: the same awareness, refracted through different experience.

In that sense, your insight feels less like discovery and more like remembrance of a unity that was never truly divided.

Odel Asseille's avatar

I couldn't have phrased it better.

And it's something fascinating

Dipti  Vyas's avatar

Thank you Odel.

Sattie R's avatar

There is beauty in this honest reflection.

Odel Asseille's avatar

Thank you Sattie ✨☺️

Aaliya's avatar

Your writing cuts deep raw, honest, and painfully human. It’s rare to see someone articulate the conflict between wanting to belong and needing to break free so clearly.

Brilliant

Odel Asseille's avatar

Thank you Aaliye 🫶🏼🥰✨

Jackie Ko's avatar

Loved this, beautifully written brother! 💕✨🫂

Odel Asseille's avatar

Thank you Jackie 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼