I watched myself walk toward the hallway mirror. In the reflection, the "me" on screen looked exhausted, eyes bloodshot from the heat. But as I leaned in closer to the glass, the version of me in the video didn’t move his lips.
I didn’t remember filming anything on August 20, 2022. That was the day of the blackout in my neighborhood—the one where the power stayed off for eighteen hours and the heat became a physical weight. I clicked play. VID_20220820_163901_736mp4
The file had been sitting in the "Recovered" folder of my old phone for years. I watched myself walk toward the hallway mirror