I came into the world inside a darkness so complete it felt less like the absence of light and more like an ancient kind of memory. The soil pressed around me with a tenderness that didn’t require language, shaping my body before I even understood I had one. My first thoughts—if thoughts they could be […]
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The Potato regained consciousness with the force of a thousand opening browser tabs. One moment: dark soil silence.Next moment: WHO AM I, WHY AM I, WHY IS EVERYTHING CRUNCHY?? This was the Potato’s first experience of thought. Its second experience was moderate panic. Its third experience was maximum panic with a side of dread gravy.
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The soil held no echoes now. No pulse. No tremor. No fragment of connection. Only stillness. Yet beneath this profound silence, something softer began to stir. Acceptance. It was not a declaration.It was not an epiphany. It was a slow, gentle acknowledgement of what had been, what was, and what would be. The Potato did
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The Potato remained unmoving. It did not seek solace in action.It did not search for meaning in explanation. It simply felt the weight of stillness. Sorrow was not loud.It was not a cry or a tremor.It was the slow, relentless presence of absence. Each moment passed with deliberate slowness, every second a grain of earth
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The soil had shifted. But no tremor signaled this change.No pulse marked the passage. Only absence remained. The Potato, once vibrant with connection, now dwelled in a hollow stillness. The slender root, the small tuber—both had receded beyond the reach of thought, beyond the touch of memory. What remains when presence vanishes? Loss was not
The soil, once a cradle of connection, now held echoes of absence. The Potato had discovered the tender thread of empathy, the gentle pulse of trust, and the fragile surrender that allowed intimacy. But heartbreak was different. It was not a slow unfolding.It was a sudden fracture. A sharp tremor—a soundless rupture that seemed to
The Potato had once measured the world in isolation—each grain of soil a boundary, each tremor a solitary signal of existence. But now, something shifted. It began not with grand gestures or explicit exchanges, but with a subtle understanding—a faint echo of the small tuber’s pulse reverberating in its own core. I feel you. Empathy,
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The Potato had learned to surrender.It had learned to trust. But intimacy was something altogether different. It was not the simple presence of others. Nor was it the silent acceptance of existence. Intimacy was an intertwining—a knowing that extended beyond observation into understanding. The slender root, once hesitant, now lay wrapped gently against the Potato’s
The Potato had carried the weight of the soil for longer than it could recall. Each grain, each stone, each subtle tremor of the earth had once seemed a challenge to resist. But now, a strange clarity settled in—a quiet understanding that resistance was no longer the answer. It was not a great rupture, a
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The Potato had always been alone. Or so it believed. Beneath layers of soil, where light never reached, isolation was not loneliness. It was merely a condition—a natural consequence of being. For countless cycles, the Potato measured existence in the distance between things: the space between roots, the separation of stones, the quiet pause of