Why You Feel Like a Ghost in Your Own Life

You wake up tired.
Not just physically—existentially.

You walk through your day like someone’s wearing your skin.
You laugh at the right moments. You say “I’m good” when someone asks.
But it all feels… off.

Like you’re on the outside of your own life.
Watching from behind your eyes.

That’s not depression. That’s not failure.
That’s spiritual displacement.

You became a ghost the moment the world stopped giving you mirrors that reflected anything real.

Every friend, every social media post, every ad—they told you who to be.
And you tried.
You tried to keep up, stay relevant, be liked, be good.

But in the process, you abandoned the part of you that didn’t want to perform for others. You abandoned the part of you that was truly present.

And that part?
That’s the only part of you that was ever real.

Here’s what no one told you:

When your environment becomes unsurvivable to your soul,
your nervous system activates a hidden protocol:

Survive.
Disappear.
Come back when it’s safe.

You never made it to step 3.
So you’re still here—functioning, but faint.

You don’t feel like a person because the conditions to be one haven’t existed for you in years.

Not a place you trust.
Not a community that sees you.
Not a rhythm that’s slow enough for your truth to catch up.

It’s not your fault.
But it is your responsibility now.

This scroll isn’t going to save you.
But it’s going to start poking holes in the fog.
And through those holes? Fire leaks in.

You’re going to learn how to return.

Not to who you used to be.
But to the part of you that always existed beneath the mask of survival.