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The Straight Line
<p><br></p><p>*Beep... Beep... Beep...*
</p><p>Looking at my life through the lens of a heartbeat monitor - that flat, endless line. </p><p>Not dead... but not quite alive either.
</p><p>I watch a child tracing a straight line in the sand - so perfect, so empty. </p><p>The ocean keeps rising to erase it, but the child keeps drawing. Again. And again.
</p><p>Life was meant to be peaks and valleys - promotions and rejections, love found and love lost. </p><p>But this? This straight line? It's a prison without bars.
</p><p>The smartest among us sit jobless. </p><p>The kindest hearts lie unloved. </p><p>We tell ourselves we're "adapting" as we methodically kill off hope - that dangerous, inconvenient emotion.
</p><p>We forget how to cry but cling desperately to laughter. </p><p>We become experts at breathing... while forgetting what makes us feel alive.
</p><p>Yet somewhere beneath this numbness... a stubborn part of us still watches the horizon. Waiting. </p><p>For the line to break. For the waves to come.</p><p>For the monitor to jump and remind us what a living pulse feels like.</p><p>
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The Straight Line
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