Own your rip. It is the only original thing about you. — You were not broken. You were opened. And whatever comes through the opening is yours to name.
That is the . The hyphen is important. It implies an action suspended in time. We are always in the middle of being torn from somewhere.
For some, the rip is literal: a birth trauma, a parent’s absence, a diagnosis that shatters the word "normal." For others, it is existential: the first time you realize you are alone inside your own head. The moment you understand that your parents will die. The instant you recognize a lie in a smile.
We spend the rest of our lives trying to mend that seam. Origin-Rip-
After the rip, we become geographers of loss. We map the edges of the wound, testing how close we can walk without falling in. Some people build walls along the fault line. Others build bridges, trying to reconnect the two sides of the chasm.
What if death is actually the opposite? What if dying is the moment the two sides of the origin-rip- finally, mercifully, touch again? What if the last breath is the sound of the universe saying, "The tear is healed. You were never separate. You only thought you were."
Your deepest fears? They flow through the rip. Your most desperate loves? They pour through that same gap. Your art, your ambition, your obsession with proving something to a ghost who isn't listening—all of it, tidal, rushing through the tear that made you. Own your rip
And yet.
But here is the brutal truth: the origin-rip- cannot be sewn shut.
There is a specific moment in the darkroom of memory when the negative is exposed for the first time. Before the rip, we exist in a state of warm, muffled potential—a singularity of pure is . Then comes the tear. Not a cut—surgical, precise—but a rip . Jagged. Auditory. The sound of a self being separated from the whole. You were opened
In mythology, the origin is always a wound. Zeus’s head splitting open for Athena. Adam’s side gaping for Eve. The Norse Ymir being dismembered to create the world. We don’t like to admit it, but creation is never gentle. It is a violence of becoming. The seed splits its casing. The chick shatters the shell. The child takes its first breath and immediately screams—because oxygen burns the new lungs.
They say that death is the ultimate rip—the soul tearing free of the body. But I wonder.
Every act of courage is a negotiation with the rip. Every moment of genuine connection is a bridge built across it. Forgiveness is not erasing the wound. It is looking at the torn edge of your own soul and saying, "I will not let this unravel me."