The Space Lie

Metaphorical Narrative

The stage is empty. Silence holds.
Nothing is wrong.

But ego hates the quiet.
It rushes in like a stagehand, dragging props, shouting lines, demanding an audience.
It says: “You don’t deserve this space. Earn it first.”

Sometimes it isn’t even your voice. It’s a borrowed echo — a teacher, a parent, a culture. A false landlord trying to evict you from your own home.

And when you refuse the first trick, ego shapeshifts.
“Will you ever be enough?” flips into “I don’t care what anyone thinks.”
If you don’t buy that, it throws another line. Another costume. Another trick.

The emptiness is not the problem.
The lie is.

Core Insight

Ego’s permanent lie is: “You don’t deserve space.”
That’s why it creates phantom loads, fake urgency, false wishes.

But space is not earned.
Space is given by existence itself.

And remember: ego will always have another trick to play.
There is no point being entertained by its theatre. The witness steps off the stage.

The I does not need permission to take up space.

Saturday Experiment

When phantom tiredness or sudden drama appears:

1. Say: “Space lie detected.”
2. Stand still. Take three breaths into your body.
3. Affirm: “This space is mine. I owe no one for existing.”
4. If ego throws another line, smile: “The show is over. I don’t need to watch.”

Sunday Reflection

• When did the space lie creep in this week?
• Whose voice did it sound like?
• What new trick did ego try to play on the empty stage?
• In third person: “He/She noticed the lie and reclaimed the empty stage as theirs.”