Resonant in the Echoless Hall

At some point, you learned to trust your own signal more than anyone else's response to it. That was probably smart at the time. People gave you bad feedback, or their reactions said more about them than about you. So you stopped weighing their responses and started trusting your own frequency instead. That instinct was protective, and it worked. But now it runs without distinction. Useful feedback gets dismissed alongside useless noise. When someone tells you something that doesn't match your self-image, the reflex is to explain it away. The pattern protects your signal from being disturbed, but it also prevents it from being refined.

Your signal is strong. That's not the issue. The issue is that you're transmitting without tracking how the transmission lands. Life is constantly reflecting back what you're putting out. Every repeated pattern, every recurring reaction, every relationship that hits the same wall is information. Not about whether your signal is good or bad, but about what's actually being received versus what you think you're sending. Growth here means learning to receive the echo. Not to second-guess yourself, not to collapse at every critique. Simply to watch what comes back with the same clarity you bring to what goes out. When you track impact as carefully as you track intent, the patterns stop repeating because you're finally using the information they carry.