The Ghost rhythm.
The Ghost is the rhythm that withdraws. You go quiet to stay whole, and you process the world from a distance before you re-enter it.
A Ghost needs the door. You can be fully present and then, without warning even to yourself, gone, not out of cruelty but out of a need to not be reached for a while. You see clearly from the edge. The room is easier to read when you are not standing in the middle of it.
The gift
You bring perspective no one inside the noise can find. The Ghost is the one who returns and says the true thing everyone missed.
The cost
You can withdraw past the point of return. The distance that protects you can become the wall that isolates you, and you can call abandonment a preference.
Under pressure
Under pressure a Ghost disappears. Do not chase. Leave the door open and the light on, and they come back on their own terms or not at all.