Delusion is a Time Zone.

Talent is hitting a target everyone can see.
Breakthrough is hitting a target no one can see — until you hit it.
Delusion is the time it takes to get there.

When the target is invisible, your aim looks irrational.
Your methods don’t map.
Your decisions annoy people.
Your communications are “defiant.”
Your rhythm is off.

You’re told you don’t listen.
You’re moving too fast.
You’re doing too much.
You’re “too much.”

But guess what?

There’s only one reason why:
From the outside, there’s no evidence the target exists.

So no matter how clearly you try to explain yourself, they will still call you delusional, if not to your face, that absolutely positively under their breath.

Can you really blame them though? It’s like you’re introducing people to your imaginary friend emphatically insisting she exists.

“No, Kaeya, she doesn’t”

Me: Cheeks hot, huffing and puffing, trying — by the love of God — to explain to you 50 ways from Sunday how my imaginary friend exists…getting nowhere,
and now questioning myself…

(And by the way, chances are, the answer is no. You do not belong on the funny farm. And in fact you’re probably unusually good at explaining yourself Because by now, explaining yourself is a survival skill. Unfortunately, it just won’t help until after the breakthrough lands. Don’t sweat that too much.)

✨ But the magic if invisible targets is:
they’re only invisible until you hit them.
And once you do, they snap into public view,
and what looked like delusion suddenly becomes obvious in hindsight.

Once it’s obvious, everything shifts.
Except you.

The same people who once called you “delusional”
start calling you “genius.”
They say things like:

But the truth is:
You didn’t change much of what you were saying.
You didn’t grow into clarity. You were as clear as you possibly could be.

What changed was the visibility of the target.
The one you’d been tracking, naming, building toward all along.

And only because you hit it,
they can finally see it.

So:

    The world updates.
    The record updates.
    And people say, “I’ve seen you grow so much!”

And yes. You did grow.
But that part was too ugly for them to watch.
They didn’t see the part where you fell apart, came back together,
fell apart again, and kept going anyway.

So when they talk about your “growth,”
they’re not pointing to you.
They’re pointing to the herd now gathered around you.
The visible crowd. The post-breakthrough bulge of validation.
And calling that your growth.

When your language was ahead of its time, it was “delusional.”
Now it’s nomenclature.

When your structure didn’t match any existing blueprint, it was “delusional.”
Now it’s precedent.

Your imaginary friend wasn’t imaginary.
She was your partner in time travel.

So if you’re being called delusional, it might not mean you're off-track.
It might just mean:

• Your target is still invisible

• Your pattern hasn’t landed

• Your trajectory is playing out on a longer arc

Keep aiming.

Delusion is not your flaw. It’s your time zone.
And the only way out is through.

Kaeya