At night, I finally feel like I can breathe.

Everything quiets down, the noise, the expectations, even the weight of other people's thoughts. It's like the world stops watching for a moment, and I don't have to perform or explain who l am.

There's something about the dark that feels honest to me. Without all the light, I start to see things differently, more clearly, somehow.

Not just what's around me, but what's inside me too.

It's in those quiet hours that I feel closest to reality, not the one everyone else is chasing, but the one that feels true to me.