Speaking and Realizing truth

Hearing you saying the words, didn’t do the trick. Because I simply didn’t believe you were serious.
Hearing others utter them, reacting neutrally or laughing at them, didn’t either. It simply made me believe the words even less.

Today though, when I myself pronounced them and I pronounced them like I meant them, it finally hit me.
Speaking out what you and others had already…finally worked.

I had said those words before. But I had said them like I didn’t believe them, like I thought they were untrue, exactly the way I’d heard them, like it wasn’t serious. But to you they were the truth, the one and only undeniable truth, to you it was totally serious.

And today, that hit me. It’s your truth, it’s everybody’s truth, and it is now slowly becoming mine. Who would have thought??