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STARTING OVER
There is a strange kind of silence
that comes after everything falls apart.
Not movie silence.
Not peaceful silence.
I mean the kind where the refrigerator hum
sounds like a sermon,
and the walls stare at you
like they know you failed.
Starting over from nothing
is not brave in the beginning.
It is humiliating.
It is standing in the ruins of your own life
holding a trash bag of what survived.
It is selling things you once loved.
It is eating cheap meals
while pretending you are not scared.
It is watching people disappear
the second your usefulness does.
And God
the loneliness of rebuilding.
Nobody applauds the foundation.
They only celebrate the house
after the lights come on.
But there is something powerful
about a person
who learns to grow roots
in scorched earth.
A person who says,
“I may have lost everything
but I am not finished yet.”
That kind of soul becomes dangerous.
Because once you survive sleeping
beside your broken dreams,
once you learn how to rebuild
with blistered hands and exhausted hope,
fear loses its grip on you.
You stop worshipping comfort.
You stop begging for permission.
You stop needing the world
to believe in you first.
And one morning,
without even noticing,
you realize the person staring back in the mirror
is no longer the one who lost it all.
It is someone new.
Someone stronger.
Someone quieter.
Someone who understands
that rock bottom
is not a grave.
It is a beginning.
By Jason Strickland
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