Before the betrayal.
Before the chaos.
Before your awakening.
There was a seed.
That seed is origin — the genesis of you.
It is the pristine imprint encoded in your soul before the world began telling you who to be. Before the distortion, before the manipulation, and before you learned to doubt your own instincts.
Innocence is where your identity begins.
And if you are going to climb, heal, awaken, strategize, and lead — you must first remember who you were. Before the noise got so loud you forgot.
What Innocence Really Means
Innocence is not ignorance. It is clarity without corruption.
It is the natural alignment between your spirit and truth — before fear got in the way.
Children trust because they are designed to trust. They believe because belief is their native language. They create with fervor – and without fear – because they haven’t yet been tarnished by the quandary of comparison.
This is not childishness. It is your divinely designed blueprint.
Christ said:
“Unless you become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
— Matthew 18:3
He was not telling us to regress. He was telling us to remember.
The mustard seed is small — almost invisible. But like everything in the natural world, it contains design. Its future expansion is written in its DNA.
You were made that way too.
When the Seed Is Disturbed
But something happens as we grow…
Voices and opinions enter. Expectations form. Trust is broken. Love becomes conditional. Truth becomes debated. And control is disguised as protection.
And the seed gets buried.
But buried is not destroyed.
Sometimes what feels like loss is simply temporary concealment.
You were not erased. You were planted.
In families ruled by confusion…
In relationships built on competition…
In systems driven by image…
In environments shaped by narcissism or fear…
The innocent spirit learns to survive. It adapts. It protects.
And all too often, it goes quiet.
But it never disappears.
There is something inside you that always knew when something wasn’t right.
That was the seed speaking. Your essence has never betrayed you.
Reflection
What did you believe about yourself before the world told you otherwise?
Your answer is not silly or childish.
It will give you the roadmap back to your true self.
And from here — we begin to climb.