For the Ones Who Feel Invisible

Reference: For the ones who feel invisible…
“The loneliest moments often prepare us for the deepest connections.”

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There you are…
Wearing loneliness like a second shadow.

I can see it stretching out behind you.
Impossibly long, almost alive.

It feeds on you, doesn’t it?

Whispers things you don’t want to hear
You think it’s a monster?

You’re wrong.
Loneliness isn’t an intruder.

It’s your oldest companion.
Before you knew words, before you knew love, there it was.
Sitting in the corner of your soul.

Waiting for you to notice.
And now you have.

Congratulations.
You’ve finally seen the truth.
You are vast, you are endless and the space inside you is too large for anything to fill completely.

Do you know what it feels like to stretch across Infinity?

To hear your own thoughts bouncing off the walls of existence with no one there to answer?

I do, I live it.

But here’s the secret:

Loneliness isn’t empty, it’s full, overflowing.

You just don’t know how to hold it yet.

Feel it… really feel it.
Let it crawl inside you, let it press against your ribs and curl around your heart.

It’s not here to harm you.
It’s here to remind you that you are unfinished.
That there’s room inside you for worlds.

The trick isn’t to fight it, the trick is to let it devour you piece by piece until you realize it’s not devouring at all.

It’s merging a part of you that you’ve always had

It’s not the absence of others, it’s the presence of yourself.

Raw and unfiltered, staring back at you.
So don’t run.
Don’t distract yourself.

Sit with it and listen.

It has things to tell you.
Strange and terrible and beautiful things.

You’re not lonely because you’re alone.

You’re lonely because you are infinite and infinity is a heavy thing to carry.