06/05/2026
Sometimes I feel disconnected from people,
like I’m living in an alternative world.
Not because I hate humanity.
Not because I want attention.
Not because I expect people to save me.
But because some of us rebuild ourselves so many times,
across countries, cultures, losses, trauma, survival and reinvention…
that eventually we stop feeling fully “from” anywhere.
You can be social and still feel unseen.
You can hold space for hundreds of people
and still crave one moment of true emotional resonance.
People think connection is proximity.
Sometimes it’s recognition.
And there’s a particular kind of loneliness
in being deeply understood by almost nobody
while being deeply supportive to everybody else.
Maybe that’s why some of us feel like we are observing the world through glass sometimes.
Still here though.
Still trying.
Still learning how to belong without betraying myself.
— Drakaina Hail
