I have encountered people who didn’t see me clearly, or even didn’t see me at all. I made the mistake of internalizing that, thinking that I was unseeable, invisible, inconsequential.
Thinking that I somehow didn’t deserve to be seen.
But just because there are those who don’t see me doesn’t mean that I cannot be seen. It is not some horrible failing on my part.
I am not invisible. I am not unseen.
I am visible. I am here. I exist.
I Am.