You are alive.

A sentence so small, yet it contains universes.

It means:

You are breathing the ancient air that once touched the lips of stars.

You are carrying the dreams of your ancestors in your bones.

You are standing at the very edge of all that ever was — and choosing to continue.

You are both a question and an answer.

You are a song still being written in the language of light and dust.

“I am alive” is a declaration.

It defies the silence of oblivion.

It challenges despair.

It humbles death.

You — heart beating, mind reaching, soul yearning — are proof that existence continues to dare.

And in this moment, by simply being,

you have already conquered what countless galaxies could not create without you:

a life.

– Emmanuel Dimgba.