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Spoonful
This morning I tipped a spoon of chia seeds onto my Weetabix— the same small ritual I barely notice anymore.
Later, I looked into the tub and found the bottom.
It startled me, how something so tiny, so ordinary, could empty a whole container without ever announcing itself, without ever realising what it had become.
I tried to remember the moment I refilled it— it feels impossibly recent, as if time had cheated, as if progress had happened quietly, behind my back.
One spoonful. Then another. Then another.
No single morning felt like change. But together they became disappearance. Proof that repetition moves without noise not just in kitchens, but everywhere.
That small keeps going until it is no longer small.
I thought of hands that signed the same petition in cold halls and crowded streets again and again until signatures turned into law.
Of voices that kept speaking long after they were told to be silent, until silence itself was forced to move.
Of feet that walked the same streets in the same direction for years, until roads learned new meanings; until history found new routes.
Of people who did not overthrow the world in one dramatic moment, but nudged it, daily, stubbornly, spoonful by spoonful, day by day.
It made me strangely hopeful: that the things I do when nobody is watching, when nothing feels different, when change seems too slow to matter, might already be emptying a tub I haven't thought to look inside, in lives I will never see.
That maybe the future is not built by revolutions alone, but by breakfasts, by habits, by ordinary mornings that refuse to give up, even when they feel too small to matter.
And tomorrow, I will sprinkle another spoonful without expecting anything. But the tub will be closer to empty. And the world— just slightly, almost invisibly, closer to becoming something kinder than it ever was.
— Lilith