Letter · IV · August 7, 2026

Invisible :)

My life feels emptier than others.

I feel trapped. Stuck. Like I’ve got nowhere to go.

There are moments when it hurts less—when it doesn’t really feel like anything at all. But no matter what I do, there’s this unhappiness, this emptiness, this feeling that something inside me is broken.

My whole heart feels empty.

I gave so much of it to you. To everyone. And somehow, I always ended up feeling taken for granted.

I don’t know why my heart sank so suddenly.

Maybe I’ve been resisting all of this for too long. Maybe everything I’ve been pushing down finally needed somewhere to go. Maybe this needed to happen.

I have no idea.

It just sucks feeling like I always have to make sense of everything. Everywhere. Every time.

Maybe this is just my life these days.

Broken.

Like I’m here—I’m going through the motions, I’m existing—but somehow it feels like everything that made being here meaningful is gone.

I hope one day I feel happy again.

Because right now, I just feel invisible to everyone else.

:)

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