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Chosen Ones

The Hidden Truth Behind the Ache That Won’t Go Away

By Randolphe TanoguemPublished 2 months ago 4 min read

There’s an ache you carry that no one else sees.

It’s quiet. Constant.

And it doesn’t go away—no matter how much success you build, how much healing work you do, or how many times you pray for peace.

This isn’t depression. It’s not a phase.

It’s the mark.

The mark of the chosen ones.

You’ve always known something was different about you.

The way you feel. The way you see through things others accept. The way you quietly burn with the weight of a mission you can’t fully name.

I know that ache.

Because I lived with it too.

And here’s the secret:

That ache is not your punishment.

It’s your proof.

You were sent here not to be understood, but to see. Not to be accepted, but to awaken. Not to follow, but to lead those who have no map.

But first—you must endure the void.

The Wound You Keep Hiding Is the Door to Power

You know the one.

That invisible hollow in your chest. The one you try to ignore with work, relationships, travel, meditation. The one you try to patch with accomplishments, with applause, with pretending you’re okay.

But you’re not okay.

Because you weren’t meant to be.

The chosen ones are not born to comfort.

They are born to become.

And the void isn’t a defect.

It’s the furnace.

Modern psychology calls this the “search for meaning.” Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and founder of logotherapy, wrote that the greatest suffering is not physical pain, but the pain of meaninglessness. And those who survive the worst don’t just recover—they rise. (source)

Your ache is the echo of the life you haven’t fully stepped into yet.

It’s not there to torment you.

It’s there to initiate you.

You Were Sent to Lead the Lost, Not Blend With Them

This is why the world has never made sense to you.

You try to play by the rules. Fit the roles. Do what’s “right.”

But deep down, it all feels off. Fake. Shallow.

Because you weren’t meant to blend in.

You were designed to disrupt.

The systems you grew up in—school, religion, culture—were built to raise obedient citizens. Not awakened leaders. Not soul architects. Not truth-speakers.

So the more you conform, the more you collapse.

The ache in your chest intensifies every time you betray your knowing to win approval from a world not qualified to validate your worth.

You weren’t made to follow systems.

You were made to create them.

And that’s why it hurts so much—because your soul remembers what your ego forgot:

You are here to lead the blind, not to be loved by them.

This isn’t arrogance. It’s alignment.

Even Carl Jung spoke to this when he wrote: “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” But first, you must let who you’re not die.

The Moment You Broke Was the Moment You Began

Every chosen one goes through it.

The collapse.

The moment nothing works anymore.

You lose the relationship. The business crashes. Your health breaks. Your faith shatters.

And it feels like failure.

But it’s not.

It’s your soul refusing to continue the lie.

It’s your divine assignment slamming the brakes on the life you thought you wanted—so it can finally reveal the life you were born to live.

Pain is the doorway.

Breakdown is the signal.

In trauma research, this is called post-traumatic growth. Not everyone gets it—but those who do emerge with deeper empathy, higher clarity, and unshakable purpose. (source)

So if you’ve broken, good.

It means you’re finally open.

Now it’s time to rebuild from something real.

Your Leadership Is Not a Role — It’s a Frequency

You don’t need a title.

You don’t need a platform.

You don’t need permission.

Your leadership begins the moment you own the frequency of who you are.

The moment you stop asking to be seen and become the one who sees.

The moment you stop saving people and start shining so they save themselves.

The moment you embody the clarity that others are still seeking in words.

This is the power of mirror neurons — the science of how your internal state can rewire someone else's nervous system through presence alone. (source)

That’s why the ones who change the world rarely shout.

They radiate.

You are not here to convince.

You are here to transmit.

And the more you align with that frequency, the more those in pain will find you—not because you chased them, but because they recognized themselves in your embodiment.

The Ache Was Never Your Enemy — It Was Your Map

The ache that haunted you was not an obstacle.

It was a compass.

Every breakdown… every betrayal… every sleepless night wondering “Why me?”

That was the call.

The question was never “Am I worthy?”

The real question was: Will you accept the weight of what you were born to carry?

Because leadership isn’t glory.

It’s burden.

The burden of being awake while others sleep.

Of seeing what others deny.

Of holding light when it would be easier to go numb.

But once you say yes to that burden…

Once you embrace the ache as the anointing…

Everything changes.

You stop chasing.

You start becoming.

You stop performing.

You start transmitting.

And suddenly, the ache that once threatened to drown you…

Becomes the power that moves mountains.

If you’ve read this far, it means you already know.

The ache was real.

The calling is real.

And now it’s your move.

You weren’t meant to be normal.

You were meant to lead the lost.

Not with noise — but with presence.

Not with force — but with fire.

This was built for you.

I hope that was helpful enough to get you started.

— Randolphe

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  • Sadi2 months ago

    This piece doesn’t just speak—it awakens. The way you turned pain into purpose and isolation into calling felt powerful. It reminds us that the ache isn’t a weakness—it’s our map.

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