Remembered by Dust Chapter 3 — Ghost Siblings

Last week, we witnessed awareness' first glow, like dawn through leaves. We met the pain of separation, the birth of self and shadow.

This week, we inherit a timeless story. Siblings bound by love and envy, reflection and erasure. Across cultures, one rises while the other fades; one becomes legend while the other haunts the margins.

In this chapter, I explore the story beneath the story: the grief of being second, the hunger to be seen, the generations of children who learned to measure their worth by someone else’s shine.

Here, we meet the Ghost Siblings. Dust calls us back to where the comparison began, a quiet child trying to prove that they matter.

Thank you for sitting with me in the ache of the Ghost Siblings, the echo between love and envy, reflection and erasure. This one always tugs at something deep in me: that quiet question of worth, of being chosen, of what love feels like when it's a real or perceived competition.

Next week, Dust and I move from rivalry into reverence and the story of Abraham and Isaac, where devotion and fear blur into something raw and trembling. We’ll look at what it means to offer what we love most, and what happens when faith demands blood.

Until then, please remember: you are not a shadow. You are first at being you.

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