TENET

OF THE UNBOUND

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I’m running where the mind dissolves, where invisible walls melt into the beat of my pace. My body writes its own manifesto, each movement a rebellion carved in breath and pulse. This is my imprint, my footprint, what keeps my feet on the ground and my spirit alive.

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My limbs coil against horizons that push back, muscles burning, body humming with effort. My movements refuse the ordinary, tracing paths no one has walked; my legs twist, my feet strike, my body cracks through the air, leaving traces that linger like shadows in revolt. Silence turns kinetic as sweat glistens on my skin, my heartbeat hammering, my lungs filling. A vast mindscape opens in front of me—a blue, abstract space, stretching, alive, a portal of freedom and clarity that only this run can unlock.

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I’m pushing into each stride, demand and surrender, exhaustion and force tangled together in rhythm. Every motion writes itself across the vast blue, alive under the stretch of my legs, the arch of my spine, the scrape of air against my skin.

I’m not running to escape—I’m running to push, to break the lines I’m given, to feel the edges of this open space. The world bends and shifts, alive, resisting, yielding to the weight of my movement. My heart drives me, my lungs swell, my skin tastes friction. Each step, each pulse, is a quiet revolt: unbound, unbroken, alive in motion, a body and a mind suspended between the here and now.

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I’m not defined by distance or time. My run begins before the first step — in the tension between breath and thought, in the pulse that insists before motion. I move to understand, not to prove. Each stride is an answer to a question that keeps changing shape.

The streets repeat themselves, yet I never cross them the same way twice. Corners become decisions, asphalt turns into memory. I run inside and against myself — testing what it means to endure, to be present, to stay in the movement when everything else demands stillness.

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Running isn’t an escape; it’s a translation. A way of turning what’s invisible into form — the weight of thought into rhythm, the noise of the city into silence. I’m not chasing speed, I’m chasing sense: a fleeting balance between control and release, discipline and surrender.

Each run leaves me altered, never complete. My body learns, forgets, rewrites itself.

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Photography:

Lee Wei Swee