The Treat: The Belief Loop

Written By Haven Duddy

I think I knew all along that to take this leap - to even dare to call it a treat - I was going to have to believe in myself.

Not just a little bit. Fully.

Because once you understand the game, the next move is always yours.

That's when I start laughing.

Like, really - why is everyone taking this so seriously?

Calm down.

Relax.

We are all just players on our own boards, moving through our own realities, spinning around the same sun, pretending we have the same rules.

But we don't.

No two people are the same - not even if they share a lfe, a room, a dream.

They can't be. They won't be.

That's the design.

So if all I have at the end of the day is my belief in who I am - this one tiny position on the board called now- then that's enough.

Because if I can move from here to the next square without hurting anyone, and if my momentum still feels good and kind, why wouldn't I keep going?

And why wouldn't you cheer me on?

We are each our own experiment in possibility.

We're all scientists of our own lives, testing what happens when we lean toward belief.

And when you see the pattern - when you realize that energy moves faster when its met with understanding - you stop fighting it.

You learn to play.

That's how I built my equations, actually.

I watched how life moved, how the energy of trust pulled everything forward.

When you believe, doors appear.

When you use them, the kingdom appears.

And the wildest secret of all is that it was always there -

it was just waiting for you to see it.

So yes, this is the treat: the moment you stop asking if the game is real.

You realize it's both - real and not, visible and invisible, everything and nothing-

and that exactly why it works.

Because if it's all just a game,

and you're already in it,

why not make it your best one?

The belief is the move - The move is the proof

Every player has one truth: the next turn is always theirs