EVERY HOOFPRINT

It’s 2:19 a.m., and the world is quiet—the kind of quiet that makes you hear everything. In that silence, I start thinking about the person I am when no one’s watching. Not the version people see, but the one who exists without pretending. The one who feels everything, questions everything, and just… is. Maybe that’s who we really are—the quiet version we meet in the dark when the noise fades. And for now, that feels like enough.

It’s 1:38 a.m., and outside my window the wind sways softly, making the trees sound like they’re whispering. In the dim glow of the screen, my mind drifts past this house and this world, reaching for the edges of reality where the multiverse might begin.

It’s 2:11 a.m. and I’m lying awake, thinking about the Goldilocks Zone. The narrow space where life can exist. Earth sits perfectly in that balance. Too close to the sun and we’d burn, too far and we’d freeze. Maybe our lives have Goldilocks Zones too. Moments where things line up just right. Not forced, not delayed. Just… right.

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