But what about the people who don’t fit anywhere?
In a world that celebrates belonging, what happens to those who are swept along with the tide, never really finding a place to fit in? These are the individuals who seem out of step with the rhythm everyone else dances to, not by choice but by circumstance. They try, of course…they want so desperately to fit in, to mold themselves into shapes that will blend with the crowd, but no matter how hard they try, something always seems off. It isn’t that they do not have the will to adapt or that they lack a desire to belong-it is that the spaces they enter reject them like an immune system fights off a foreign body.
They go to watch others with effortless bonds, laugh and connect in ways they can’t even replicate. It’s not loneliness in the familiar sense, it’s an intense feeling of not belonging anywhere-not in friendships, not in social circles, not even in their own families at times. So where do they go? What happens to their untold stories and their invisible struggles?
Society has no shortage of advice for them… "Just be yourself," "You’ll find your tribe," "It gets better." But what if it doesn’t? What if the person they are doesn’t fit into the molds society offers? What if their tribe never comes?
And yet, here they stand, unnoticed, unheard. Who will hear them? Who will notice them? Who will make room for them to belong too? Most importantly, who will dare ask the question?
What if they are the ones who define a new space for those who do not fit in?
