i've been thinking a lot recently about individuality and unity and how closely those intertwine as a necessary part of life.
as individuals, we all have our own voice to share with the world. in many ways, it's our personal song; the one that is heard by those willing to listen. that song is woven from all past lives or begins as a blank slate for new souls; as we grow in this life, that composition is reformed by our experiences, notes written in the margins as we learn. in this sense, we are not only composers of our own life, but collaborators in the lives and songs of everyone we have ever known and ever will know.
i was thinking about how powerful that is. that innate ability to have such a profound impact as threads of those interactions ripple across the world into every life that has been and will ever be. how sad, then, when our voices are stifled, or when this power is used to harm instead of heal and uplift. how tragic when circumstances dull our colours and hide that brilliance and beauty.
how sad when the concept of strength is narrowly defined into toxicity when a single word spoken in care, a gentle touch, can alter the course of an entire lifetime. when a single shared look between souls and a single smile can make the entire world for someone come alive.
i think of how we each have our own stories, albums of our own song mingled with the songs of every soul whose path we have crossed in some way. and how those stories when shared become an anchor of understanding when we feel the empathy through that which is shared and learn from that which is new.
how beautiful is it that in a universe filled with starlight, we become the stars in eachothers lives to inspire, to give guidance, and to draw those lost homeward again? ✨️
-ari
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