I answered everyone and still felt invisible

Dear Delyara, I replied to messages all day. Work messages. Friendly messages. Necessary messages. I was responsive, polite, useful, and present enough that nobody could have said I disappeared. And yet by the evening I felt completely unseen. I think that’s because being in contact is not the same as being known. I can answer people and still feel emotionally untouched by the end of it. I can keep conversations alive without ever bringing my real inner world into them. Today felt like that. Lots of contact. Very little real meeting. It makes me wonder how many adults are living like this now — socially active enough on the surface, privately untouched underneath.