A Reflection on Being
I Breathe — Presence
To breathe is to arrive.
Before thought, before action, before name—there is breath.
It anchors us in the now, not as an escape from the past or a race toward the future,
but as a commitment to inhabit this body, this moment, this life.
Breath is the first witness of our becoming.
Being begins not with thinking, but with sensing.
I Return — Intention
To return is to choose.
To come back to our body, our truth, our center.
We wander. We perform. We forget. Yet still—we return.
Some days, the return is a whisper. Other days, it is a roar.
Return is not regression—it is re-alignment.
A sacred act of sovereignty.
I Remember — Continuity
To remember is to re-member.
To gather the scattered pieces of ourselves across time.
Memory is more than a story—it is a compass.
We remember who we were, what we carry, and who we are still becoming.
We are not just who we are now, but who we have survived to be.
Therefore I Am — Becoming
I am not merely a thinker.
I am a breather, a returner, a rememberer.
Not a fixed point, but a living rhythm.
I am not proven—I am felt—
through presence, reclaimed through choice, and carried through time.
This is not the ego’s declaration.
It is the soul’s quiet affirmation.
“Spīrō, redeō, memorō—ergo sum.”
— Sam Sukumar