Baby let me love you, let me want you.
It's March 2025 and Taylor Swift is an international pop star, global sensation, 11 albums deep into her career, generally about as far from being invisible as you could possibly be. But I think she got to this place by being incredibly vulnerable in her song writing. She has given us the gift of sharing all parts of her and allowed us as listeners to be able to relate.
When I think back to the teen years I think that everyone experienced the feelings of being invisible on some level. There is this idea that if people could just see who you really are that everything would just work out perfectly. In some ways I still hold this thought, that if the people around me could really see me then everything would be okay. Maybe everything would be more than okay, maybe my relationships could be a "beautiful, miracle, unbelievable." It just feels like by now I should have made it to a place where I no longer feel invisible.
Cultivating meaningful relationships can be tough though. I guess in some ways it's nice to know that even the Taylor Swift knows what that feels like. Like we've really all been through it haven't we. The loneliness of feeling invisible is maybe the hardest part. But in Taylor's very first album she wrote a song that communicates that you are not alone. She said I've been here, and look where she is now. It might feel like a lot but she is a testament that you can get through it and there is more on the other side.
And you just see right through me but if you only knew me, we could be a beautiful miracle, unbelievable, instead of just invisible.
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