#theconfession

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For my dear niece and fellow believer! 💕

With love 💖

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Do you believe in fairies🧚‍♀️?

A little one asks

And like always, I return the question,

Do you?

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And there flashes across the little face

A discomfort

That comes when you are positioned to justify

The existence of that which is not real to another

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They have dared me

To ask you

If you believe in fairies.

She points to a group of more little ones

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And I see them standing at a distance

Ardently anticipating my answer

That would confirm or reduce to nothing

Their dearly held narrative of it.

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Scientifically, she attempts,

You can now prove they exist.

People have seen them flying

Over the House of God.

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And I smile as she seeks

Religious legitimacy

For a fiction

That has none.

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Do you have to prove something scientifically

For you to believe it exists? I ask

What if you can’t prove they exist?

Would you stop believing in them?

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And you see the little face struggle

With the tough decision

To give in to a dull public consensus on the matter

Or believe in the joy of her own narrative of it.

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If people don’t believe in it, she explains

How can we make them believe in it?

Who are the people who don’t? I ask again

Does it matter if they don’t?

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And she thinks about it

And processes the enormity of the choice she has

And the possibility of letting go of all worries

By making it

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I do not need people, I affirm,

To believe in something

That I can imagine

And they cannot.

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If I believe in them

It means I can see them

And imagine them

And make stories out of them

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Stories

Which are not true

Or real

For others

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But which are beautiful

And

True

For me

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As long as they matter to me

It’s okay

If they do not matter to others

Does that make sense?

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And she nods and silently looks deep into my eyes

Knowing they were not wide shut

Like the others

Does that mean you believe in fairies?

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And I smile and let her peer

Into my mirror

Which reflects back to her

The confidence of an unapologetic believer.

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And I lean close

And whisper

The most important words of the moment

I do.

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What are your goals for this week?