FRAGMENTS OF MIDNIGHT - by Favour Nwaoru

The clock strikes twelve, and suddenly the world grows louder in its silence.I sit in the dark, staring at the shadows where my heart likes to hide.The day’s debris; thoughts, regrets, tiny embarrassments, memories I didn’t ask for, scatter all over my mind.This is the hour life forces you to face yourself. The world outside fades.Its noise, its demands, its expectations… all dissolve into a quiet I’m not sure I’m ready for.Memories rise like ripples on a still lake—gentle at first, then sharper, clearer, deeper.The kind that reveal more than you want to know.<img src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000335723.jpg"/>Sometimes it feels like driving through the night with only headlights and old feelings to guide you.The road behind blurs like every decision you’re still not proud of.The mile markers feel like years you can’t get back.And somehow, nostalgia becomes a rear-view mirror that shows everything except peace.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000335721.jpg"/>Morning tries to slip in through the blinds, breaking into pieces on the floor.Each ray a reminder of choices made and unmade.Of people you’ve been.Of people you lost.Of the versions of yourself you outgrew or abandoned. Time doesn’t wait—never has.Every hour stacks on your shoulders, a weight made of “what ifs” and “I should have known betters.”You feel it in your bones.The heaviness.The becoming.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000335720.jpg"/>But then, somewhere between the last sigh of midnight and the first breath of morning, something shifts. Not hope.Not yet.Just… stillness.A silence that doesn’t accuse you.A darkness that finally stops fighting you.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000335712.jpg"/>And slowly, almost shyly, dawn begins to creep in. The sky softens.The air warms.And for once, you don’t shrink away from the light.You let it touch the parts of you the night exposed.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000335713.jpg"/>Your problems don’t disappear.Your heart doesn’t magically stop aching.But you’re still here. And that counts. The dawn pours in like warm water—slow, patient, filling the cracks life left behind.Your breathing steadies.Your chest loosens.The past curls up quietly in the corner, no longer screaming for attention.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000335722.jpg"/>And then, in that gentle, golden calm, something real occurs to you: You survived another night that tried to break you. You faced the memories you avoid, the fears you hide, the truths you pretend not to feel.And you made it through.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000335724.jpg"/>Maybe that’s the true miracle of dawn.Not the light itself,but the reminder that even at your weakest,you are still capable of rising.

Other insights from Favour Nwaoru

Referral Earning

Points-to-Coupons