The Wings I Already Had
Last night, I dreamed I had wings. I flew toward everything I had taught myself not to reach for, and woke with the quiet grief of realising the sky had never been what held me back.
Context for this quote
Context
Some limits are visible. Others are learned so slowly that they begin to feel like part of the landscape.
The dream was not really about flying. It was about what became reachable once the familiar hesitation disappeared. Some things in life are genuinely beyond us, but others remain distant because we have quietly accepted the idea that they are not ours to reach for.
There is a particular sadness in discovering that a door may have been open while we were still waiting for permission to approach it.
Perhaps the wings were never something the dream gave me. It only showed me what I had forgotten I already carried.