"The Scroll"
Vince Schubert
A man confronts the hidden weight of his own reactions as he discovers the raw, shifting truth beneath a simple scroll through the news.
He sat hunched over the screen, thumb twitching. Headlines flickered by like frantic shadows: disasters, outrage, declarations of truth. As his thumb danced, a familiar tightness pulsed in his upper chest. It climbed—into the throat, into the head—a creeping heat like breath caught in a sealed jar.
He froze.
“Is this it again?” he whispered, not to anyone, but to the contraction.
Instead of fleeing into another scroll, he turned inward, pressing attention into the tension like a hand on the heartbeat of the world. The contraction shifted, as if it had been seen. It floated upward, almost like steam. Warm. Familiar. Alive.
He didn’t try to fix it. He didn’t name it anxiety or stress or reaction. It was just… there. Pure sensation. Moving. Changing. Real.
Then a thought: Should I stop scrolling?
He watched the question land like a leaf on a stream. No answer. Just awareness.
He put the phone down. Then picked it up. Watched himself scroll. Felt the pulse rise again.
He smiled—not because he was free, but because he was watching.
There was power in not knowing. Power in seeing. In staying.
And in the silent, undeniable truth that this was enough.
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