“I want to be noticed in a crowded room. I want to be the only person in a crowded room. I want to be wanted, truly wanted, and desired. I want to laugh and to sing and to dance with someone and not feel self-conscious over it because I love them and I’m confident that they love me. I want to be touched and kissed and held because I’ve forgotten

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There is something deeply tragic about how love is spoken of today. Not love, really, desire. Lust dressed up in aesthetics, marketed as closeness. Infatuation that burns hot and fast, then vanishes with the first discomfort. We live in a time where the word “connection” is used so lightly, but experienced so rarely. Where the craving for bodies is... See more

maybe because in a world where connection feels scarce, loneliness haunts us. the idea of complete surrender is seductive . and the narrative keeps replaying, because it’s gripping, painful, and undeniably human . it holds up fractured mirrors for us to see not just what love is, but what it can do when we forget to hold ourselves close too.