Beliefs From Childhood: Why Fiction Feels Like Fact

You heard your own voice agree before you'd thought about it. A small hesitation moved in you, and for one second you couldn't say where the belief had come from.

This video sits inside that second. Long before you could agree to any of it, a framework was built around you, and you never once met it as a framework. You met it as the way things are. It came in your mother's tone, in what earned approval and what earned silence, in the thousand small corrections that taught you where the acceptable ended. What you've been defending as simply the weather was built, by particular people, in a particular place. Seeing that is the beginning of being able to hold it instead of being held by it.