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In People and Society • 1 min read • Apr 26, 2025 14:51p.m.
The Straight Line
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<p><br></p><p>*Beep... Beep... Beep...* </p><p>Look at my life through the lens of a heartbeat monitor - that flat, endless line.&nbsp;</p><p>Not dead... but not quite alive either. </p><p>I watch a child tracing a straight line in the sand - so perfect, so empty.&nbsp;</p><p>The ocean keeps rising to erase it, but the child keeps drawing. Again. And again. </p><p>Life was meant to be peaks and valleys - promotions and rejections, love found and love lost.&nbsp;</p><p>But this? This straight line? It's a prison without bars. </p><p>The smartest among us sit jobless.&nbsp;</p><p>The kindest hearts lie unloved.&nbsp;</p><p>We tell ourselves we're "adapting" as we methodically kill off hope - that dangerous, inconvenient emotion. </p><p>We forget how to cry but cling desperately to laughter.&nbsp;</p><p>We become experts at breathing... while forgetting what makes us feel alive. </p><p>Yet somewhere beneath this numbness... a stubborn part of us still watches the horizon. Waiting.&nbsp;</p><p>For the line to break. For the waves to come.</p><p>For the monitor to jump&nbsp;and remind us what a living pulse feels like.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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