0:00.0 | Welcome to the Knowledge for Men podcast where strong men come to rise as grounded leaders, lovers, and creators of their world. |
0:07.2 | This is the next level. |
0:17.8 | It's 2.37 a.m. and you're staring at the screen like it's a doorway to salvation, but nothing's coming through. No message, no apology, no breadcromb to keep the illusion alive. Just silence. A silence so loud it vibrates through your chest like a wardrobe you can't shut off. Your eyes scan her name, her last text, the profile picture that still tricks your brain into thinking she's yours. |
0:39.3 | You scroll, you rewind, you replay every moment like it was a sacred scripture. |
0:43.8 | She wasn't your person. |
0:45.5 | She was your permission to avoid your own reflection. |
0:48.5 | But the truth, it wasn't love. |
0:50.9 | It was sedation. |
0:52.1 | You weren't building a future. |
0:53.7 | You were avoiding a funeral. The funeral of |
0:56.2 | the version of you that's been hiding behind her presence. And now that she's gone, you're not grieving |
1:01.2 | her. You're detoxing. Detoxing from the only anesthesia that keeps you numb from the deeper |
1:06.8 | truth. You've abandoned yourself. But if that's true, then what exactly were you addicted to? |
1:13.3 | And that ache in your chest? That isn't heartbreak. That's the sound of the man inside of you |
1:17.8 | screaming to be remembered, because the truth is brutal, but it's also liberating. She didn't break you. |
1:24.9 | She just stepped away long enough for you to finally hear the emptiness you've been drowning out with her affection. |
1:29.9 | And that emptiness? |
1:31.1 | That's not her fault. |
1:32.4 | That's yours. |
1:33.4 | And the part that stings the most, it always was. |
1:36.9 | This isn't really a podcast episode. |
1:38.8 | This isn't advice. |
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