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bridge
The wall was there before you noticed it.
Of course it was.
Walls don’t ask for permission to exist.
They’re just there.
Inert and immovable.
You spend years pretending you don’t see them, even as you circle, bump into them, and feel them constricting the space you thought was endless.
Walls do that.
They stand in your way.
But like everything you think, this wall must have an insight, a lesson to be uncovered.
And one day, almost by accident, you lean against it—not out of curiosity, but exhaustion.
You lean against it and realize it’s not as solid as it looks.
The mortar is crumbling.
The bricks shift slightly under your weight.
The wall is tired, maybe as tired as you are.
So you do the unthinkable.
You push.
Not with force, not to topple it (because, let’s be honest, who has the energy for that?), but just enough to see what happens.
And it tilts.
Not a lot, but enough to make you wonder how something so rigid could bend even a little.
And then you realize: a wall on its side is a bridge.
This thought hits you with the weight of revelation and also the sharpness of its obviousness, like when someone points out a joke you didn’t get the first time.
Of course.
A bridge.
It was always there, waiting to be flipped, transformed, turned into something useful.
You don’t know where the bridge will take you.
That’s the thing about bridges.
They demand a level of faith that walls never do.
A wall is static, reliable, and predictable in its monotony.
A bridge?
A bridge is progress.
It moves you forward, piece by piece, step by step.
And that’s terrifying, yes, but also necessary.
Because staying here, in the shadow of the wall, isn’t living.
It’s waiting.
Waiting for something to change when the power to change was in your hands all along.
So you start dismantling.
Brick by brick, piece by piece, you turn the wall into a bridge.
Not gracefully.
Not quickly.
But steadily.
The insight becomes the action and, with it, the way forward.
The bridge takes shape.
You take a step into the unknown.
Progress.
Daily Writing Tip
Use metaphor to show the transformation.
Turn something familiar into something surprising, like a wall becoming a bridge. Transformation makes your writing stick.
Tomorrow’s Word:
Permanence
Until tomorrow, happy writing!
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