ON BECOMING
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Becoming is not transformation.
It is erosion.
Old habits weaken.
Old identities lose coherence.
Old narratives collapse under repetition.
Nothing dramatic announces this process.
It is quiet.
Gradual.
Unremarkable.
Becoming favors those who remain.
Those who stay through monotony outlast those who chase intensity.
Time rewards consistency, not excitement.
Becoming does not respond to desire.
It responds to behavior.
What is repeated becomes familiar.
What is familiar becomes identity.
Becoming has no finish line.
There is no final version.
Only maintenance or decay.
What is not reinforced deteriorates.
What is repeated stabilizes.
Becoming is not witnessed.
It is inferred—
after enough time has passed
that the result can no longer be argued.