The Times We are Living In

Post II — What Is Returning

There’s something happening beneath all the noise right now—something quiet, steady, and strangely familiar. Most people can’t name it, but almost everyone can feel it. It’s that sensation of“something’s shifting…and I don’t know how to explain it.” What’s returning in these times isn’t dramatic or grand. It’s simple, ancient, and deeply honest. It’s the way we were meant to live before life got loud, before survival became identity, before we learned to pretend we were smaller than we are. What’s returning is your original self. Not the version shaped by pressure, or pain, or other people’s expectations. The one beneath all that. The one you’ve been trying to get back to without even realizing it.

You may notice it as:

• the sudden urge to tell the truth

• the feeling that old roles don’t fit anymore

• the frustration with anything inauthentic

• the exhaustion from pretending you’re fine

• the sense that something in you knows where you’re heading even if you can’t see the path yet

  
  

This isn’t a breakdown. It’s a returning. Humanity built a lot of its life on mimicry—on trying to be what the world would accept instead of who we really are. But that architecture is fading. It’s collapsing quietly around the edges, and your soul can feel the gap. What’s coming back is coherence—the sense of being the same person on the inside and the outside. What’s coming back is clarity—the ability to know what’s true for you without second-guessing it to death. What’s coming back is connection—not the kind based on performance, but the kind rooted in real presence. And yes—what’s coming back is the part of you that always knew who you were before life got complicated.

This returning shows up softly. It’s not an awakening that knocks on the door. It’s the kind that sits beside you until you finally look over and realize you’re not the person you were even six months ago.

You’re growing back into yourself. And the more this returning unfolds, the more the old layers of life start to feel too tight, too scripted, too small. Not because you failed them—but because they no longer match who you’re becoming.

In Post III,

we stepped into the breaking open—the moment the old self cracks and the real one starts to breathe.

In Post IV, we’ll talk about what comes next: how life begins to reorganize around truth instead of fear, and how you start walking differently when you finally stop shrinking.

The returning isn’t external.

It’s you.

Coming back to yourself.

One clear breath at a time.