The One Who Lives in the Cingulate
The anterior cingulate is home
to the one who notices too much.
They wake to a whisper of regret
and carry silence like it’s evidence.
They rerun scenes in their head
not to change them—
just to understand what went wrong.
When two truths collide,
they try to hold both—
even if it tears them a little.
They want to get it right.
They want to make it better.
But they forget to rest.
And they forget they matter too.