Hector M. Gomez

The connection is fading, and it’s getting harder to find that perfect signal again. You are lost. You are broken. You are so close to giving up. You have never felt so close yet so far away. You’re trying to fix this, but you’re terrified you’ll never have that perfect connection again.

You keep searching, staring at the bars, hoping they’ll fill back up. And maybe the real danger isn’t that the connection isn’t perfect, it’s that you’re so focused on perfection that you miss what’s still there. The signal is slowly fading. What are you going to do?

Every step feels uncertain. You’re still here, still holding on, but with each step you risk losing the signal completely. You’re afraid to move too quickly, afraid to lean too far, afraid that one wrong choice could end it all.

It’s dark. It’s cold. Your phone is about to die. You yell, but no one hears you. If it dies, you’ll be alone, and who knows what happens then. The other person is still there, but you know you won’t be able to call again if you lose the connection. You’re scared.

Is this how it ends? You were fine, but suddenly you took the wrong turn. You were so focused on having a perfect connection that you lost track of where you were going.

So you stop. You stop running. You stop searching. Your hands are shaking and your heart is breaking, and you realize, you’ve been so terrified of losing the connection that you forgot to actually use it.

The signal is still there. Faint. Fragile. But there.

And maybe that has to be enough right now. Maybe you don’t get to have perfect. Maybe you just get this, one more chance to try, to really try. Not the way you thought was enough, but the way that actually matters.

You already know. Even through the static. Even through the silence. You will find your way back. You have to. Because the only thing worse than losing the connection is not trying hard enough to save it.