The Light Within

She sat staring at an empty page, the weight of loss pressing upon her heart like a storm cloud. "Worthless," echoed cruel whispers of rejection from shadows within.

Yet, a glint—a forgotten photograph beneath scattered papers—caught her eye. Her own radiant smile shone back defiantly; proof she'd known strength, joy, wholeness independent of another's validation.

Picking up her pen once more, she wrote fiercely, reclaiming herself word by word. On that blank page emerged a heroine renewed through vulnerability and courage—realizing worth isn't gifted or revoked by others but rekindled quietly in one's own resilient heart.