The Seven-Year Lantern

Metaphorical Narrative

A lantern burns steady on a mountain trail. For years you walked it in mist, afraid to look too far. The fog wasn’t nature — it was the eyes of others, borrowed and multiplied, making the path look fractured.

Now the lantern steadies, and for the first time you see it clearly: the next seven years, already yours.

Core Insight

Fear was only the fog of borrowed perceptions. The path was never missing. You were already built for it, carrying the lantern in your hand all along.

Saturday Experiment

• Write one sentence starting: “I am technically all set to…”
• Speak it once without imagining another person’s reaction.
• Notice the glow that stays steady.

Sunday Reflection

• How does it feel to see seven years as inevitable, not fragile?
• What difference appears when the lantern lights only their road?