Composed Desire

Composed Desire

What made sense

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Umi
Dec 26, 2025
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There’s a particular kind of choice we make when we want our lives to look coherent.

When coherence starts to feel like safety, not because it’s right, but because it reduces friction when your inner world has narrowed.
That’s the part people don’t talk about when they talk about choosing the safe thing: how memory itself can thin.

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