Your Thoughts Are Not You

Nor are they Morgan Freeman, despite what your inner monologue might sound like.

Emily Wilcox
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readSep 25, 2020

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You are not your left hip.
You are not your allergy to kiwi.
You are not your tattoo of an anthropomorphised pickle.
You are not your gigantic forehead.
You are not your leaky bowels.
You are not your weight.
You are not your arm-span dimensions.
You are not your accent.

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Emily Wilcox
ILLUMINATION

In a parallel universe I imagine I’m an astro-archaeologer or an orange cat (either way, I’m curled up on the moon) but here, and forever, I’m a storyteller.