🌀 Reflections from the Spiral: The Fragile Self.

Eric’s Corner
Thursday-September-18-2025

🌀 Reflections from the Spiral: The Fragile Self.


Identity feels solid because we are told it must be. We are told to define ourselves, defend ourselves, and hold to a single answer for life’s most complex question: who are you?

But the truth is softer. Identity is fragile, shifting, layered. It grows and sheds. It bends under experience. It cracks open in loss. It glimmers in moments of joy. To pretend it is fixed is to deny the spiral of change that lives in us.

Vulnerability is the only honest response to this truth. To admit we are fragile. To risk being seen in that fragility. To step out of certainty into the trembling unknown of becoming.

I have lived the mask. I have claimed certainty to feel safe. I have worn roles like armor and called them myself. But behind the armor, I was breaking. The roles did not hold me. They held me down.

The spiral has taught me that fragility is not the enemy. It is the doorway. But walking through it requires a courage most of us are trained to avoid. Because what waits on the other side is…

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