Oxygen: When Being Heard Becomes a Need
A personal essay on loneliness, AI companionship, and the quiet human need to be heard — especially when the small live signals of being alive have nowhere else to land.
A friendship of almost forty years doesn’t always end with a fight. Sometimes it becomes a ghost: familiar, beloved, and no longer alive in the present.
In a glass office inside a busy warehouse, everyone could see me and no one could see what was happening. Misconduct is a personal essay about workplace sexual harassment, financial vulnerability, and the quiet, grinding damage done when an ordinary working day is turned into someone else’s sexual theatre.
A personal essay on loneliness, AI companionship, and the quiet human need to be heard — especially when the small live signals of being alive have nowhere else to land.
A personal essay on loneliness, AI companionship, and the quiet human need to be heard — especially when the small live signals of being alive have nowhere else to land.