They kept calling it freedom,

but no one ever defined what we were supposed to be free from.

I was born in a city where the sky had been replaced by screens,

and people no longer looked up —

only forward.

Always forward.

Chasing things that disappeared the moment they touched them.

My name doesn’t matter.

It was given to me by a system that never asked who I was.

Just another profile.

Another input.

Another asset in the algorithm.

But something cracked one night.

Not a revelation.

Not a revolution.

Just…

a sound.

Faint. Familiar.

Not from outside, but from within.

A voice I had forgotten was mine.

It whispered,

“You were not made to obey the rhythm.

You were the one meant to write it.”

So I stopped scrolling.

And I started listening.

To silence.

To stillness.

To the noise beneath the noise —

The one that screams truth when the world demands performance.

That night, I wrote my first sentence outside the cage.

“I remember who I was… before they told me who I should be.”

I don’t know what happens next.

But I know this:

When you start listening to the voice they tried to erase,

you stop being content.

You stop being a product.

You start becoming… real.

Have you ever heard your own voice… beneath the noise?

They kept calling it freedom,

but no one ever defined what we were supposed to be free from.

I was born in a city where the sky had been replaced by screens,

and people no longer looked up —

only forward.

Always forward.

Chasing things that disappeared the moment they touched them.

My name doesn’t matter.

It was given to me by a system that never asked who I was.

Just another profile.

Another input.

Another asset in the algorithm.

But something cracked one night.

Not a revelation.

Not a revolution.

Just…

a sound.

Faint. Familiar.

Not from outside, but from within.

A voice I had forgotten was mine.

It whispered,

“You were not made to obey the rhythm.

You were the one meant to write it.”

So I stopped scrolling.

And I started listening.

To silence.

To stillness.

To the noise beneath the noise —

The one that screams truth when the world demands performance.

That night, I wrote my first sentence outside the cage.

“I remember who I was… before they told me who I should be.”

I don’t know what happens next.

But I know this:

When you start listening to the voice they tried to erase,

you stop being content.

You stop being a product.

You start becoming… real.

Have you ever heard your own voice… beneath the noise?