narratives explain.
intentions console.
beliefs reassure.
none of them determine outcome.
Every mind has a shape.
There is no such thing as a shapeless mind.
Even an empty one.
This topology is the silent geometry
through which experience is permitted or denied.
What determines outcome is shape.
The arrangement of attention.
The distribution of load.
The pathways available under pressure.
Everything else follows.
Two minds may hold the same values,
the same hopes,
the same intelligence —
and still arrive at radically different ends.
Not because life is unfair.
But because structure is decisive.
Under compressive or depressive load,
shape reveals itself —
whether by excess or by absence.
Not dramatically.
Mechanically.
Shape is not meaning.
It is condition.