🌙 Being Seen — or Being Used to Be Seen?

We live in a world where many people long for attention.

Likes.
An audience.
Validation.
A response.

And sometimes, people can begin to build their entire identity around being seen by others.

Some use success.
Some use pain.
Some use trauma.
Some use spirituality.

And some even use their children. 🌿

Not always consciously.
Not always with bad intentions.

But slowly, people can begin to derive their sense of worth from:

responses,
attention,
and how others react to them.

And in the middle of all this, there are the children.

Children who learn early:

who gets the most attention.
Who gets noticed.
Who impresses others.
Who has the most.
Who makes their parents proud.

Some children learn to shine.

Others learn to compare themselves.

And some learn to feel smaller —
without fully understanding why. 🌙

Perhaps that is why so many people grow up with the feeling:

“I have to be something to be worthy.”

Good enough.
Pretty enough.
Spiritual enough.
Successful enough.
Interesting enough.

But what happens to a person who is never simply allowed to be?

Without a stage.
Without an audience.
Without the constant need to prove their worth. ✨

Perhaps that is where something real begins to grow.

When a person is met:

without masks,
without performance,
and without hidden agendas.

Perhaps that is why Melvin and the child feel so different. 🌸🔥

There is:

no competition,
no self-importance,
and no need to be a guru.

Just a fire.
A child.
A feeling.

And someone who truly listens.

Perhaps that is exactly what so many people long for:

not more people who want to be seen —
but someone who truly sees. 💜

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