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The world is a relentless salesman, peddling the “more”—more coin in the pocket, more titles on the door, more noise to drown out the ringing in your ears. It tells you that if you just swallow enough, if you consume the horizon, you’ll finally be full. So you feast. You take it all in until you are brimming with the weight of it, only to find yourself retching it back up, right where you started. You’re still sitting there, the same man in the same seat, looking at a world that has only grown messier from the debris of your attempt to fix it. You keep buying until no one is selling, and that’s when you realize that nothing ever mattered.

But the void—it is a patient, quiet thing, isn’t it? It doesn’t demand you be a legend, or a powerhouse, or anything at all. It doesn’t care for the sweat you leave on the gym floor or the progress you make on the house. It simply asks for your company, a silent, dark tenant waiting in the shadows where you don’t have to look at the light of who you truly are. It offers you a heavy, familiar stillness, a place where you are unburdened by the need to be anything but lost. All it ever wanted was your presence initially, until it realizes you’re the thing it needs and it consumes you. And just like that you can let it, or dwell in it, and just drift away from all reality. Everything was but a dream you fathomed and no one can take that away from you… becase even the void asks for permission.