Being Seen

"We all deserve to be seen" -Susannah Conway

I have never felt "seen." I can remember  walking down the busy streets of New York, people passing on either side, rushing past going where ever New Yorkers go, and I'm lost in their wake. Not hip, cool, or beautiful like everyone else, but short, dumpy and plain. No one notices me. I don't notice myself. I notice others and what they have that I don't and what I want to possess.

So I tell stories, and hide behind a computer screen and my words reveal a glimpse of who I have always wanted to be. Noticed. Seen. The act of sending them out into the blogshere is a prayer for connection.

We all have stories and they aren't that original - and that is a good thing. Stories of loss and love, grief and happiness. In seeing ourselves in the words of others we are noticed and seen. We are connected.