Those who Risk Substance, and Those who Speak Shadows

Choosing to speak the instant you feel the words is to tap into the deepest possible slice of wisdom. Something without a definite name or shape, but primordial and necessarily true. A primeval flicker of something behind the veil; that which has taken your life until now to materialize.

Speaking with such raw expression comes with more risk, as it is always safer to sanitize and validate before releasing. But that additional analysis comes at a cost, as all safe measures do.

That is your choice.

You don’t get to wait and see. If you choose to analyze and refine, you are trading the deepest possible wisdom for a shadow of its former self.

The shadow is more precise. It is cleaner. It is more consumable. More relatable.

But it is a shadow.

One cannot communicate nature’s deepest realities through a synthetic layer of civilized domestication.

Truth, in its ultimate composition, is a thing channeled. It is immediate and emotional. It is something gifted by compulsion.

Truth is permanent in itself, but liminal and fleeting when it chooses to make itself known.

There are those who risk substance, and those who speak shadows.