<p>I don’t know if I’m the only one, but sometimes I feel like my mind drags me too far out of life. While most people are just living, I’m sitting there searching, staring, trying to catch existence making a mistake.</p><p>At first, it was nature. I kept asking myself: what really makes a human different from an animal? I’d watch the way people walk, the way animals move, even imagine how an alien might step or glide. Animals move with pure instinct. Humans move with thought. Aliens who knows? Maybe too perfect, too calculated. That difference alone kept me thinking for days.</p><p>But then I pushed deeper. I wanted to see differences even among humans themselves. I watched Black people, White people, different bodies, different cultures, just waiting for a glitch in the way they moved. I thought maybe I’d see it maybe one moved heavier, one lighter, one smoother, one sharper. I thought the body would reveal a separation.</p><p>But it didn’t. A step was still a step. A hand rising was still a hand rising. When you strip away skin and history, the movement stayed human. The rhythm was still there, natural, unbroken.</p><p>And then came the harder part the things my mind whispered as “truth.”</p><p>Sometimes, out of nowhere, a thought will hit me. So strong, so clear, it feels like the realest truth I’ve ever known. But I don’t let myself believe it. I restrict it. I hide it. Because I know if I take it in fully, it will carry me too far, it will pull me out of balance again. So I pretend. I act like it’s not the truth, even though my psychology is screaming that it is.</p><p>That’s the fight. The truth I search for is also the truth I run from. </p><p>And that’s the paradox of thinking too deep. The more you search, the more you realize everything is connected. Black or White, human or animal, all of it moves in one rhythm. But once you step outside that rhythm even in your mind you don’t feel human anymore. You just feel like an outsider watching life move without you and that is dangerous </p>
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