“You were not made to fit into the machine. You were made to move with the mystery.”
There’s a moment in every journey when you realize you can’t keep pretending.
Pretending your work doesn’t matter. Pretending your voice should stay small. Pretending you belong in systems that don’t see your soul.
You are not a cog.
You are not here to be interchangeable.
You are a channel — for creativity, for presence, for something larger than yourself.
You were not made to merely *function.* You were made to flow.
Let today be a day of remembrance.
You don’t have to know how it all unfolds. But you can stop hiding.
Step out of the machine. Step back into your magic.
Place your feet flat on the floor. Sit upright. Say aloud: “I am not a machine. I am a channel.” Repeat three times. Let the words land deep.
Take one action today that expresses your spirit — not for approval, but for aliveness.
Tariq N. “Once I stopped acting like my job defined me, I began doing work that actually *felt* like me. I’m no longer pretending to be a machine.”
You don’t have to shrink to serve.