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Journey of the Soul
You are not the map. You are the mileage.
Pilgrimage is a polite word for leaving one hunger and discovering another.
The soul does not commute. It accrues — scars, appetites, small mercies, the places you mispronounced until they owned you.
Circumnavigation is vanity when the crossing you need is internal and has no sponsors.
Who you become is not the souvenir. It is the toll.
The road keeps the count whether you pose for it or not.
JV · Dark Heart Labs