Dear reader, i have written this book with the hope that this book will feel like home to you—the kind that sits quietly with you, heals your inner child, and holds you in the warmest hug when the world feels too heavy. I hope that every time you return to these pages, you feel a little less alone, a little more understood. I wrote these words with love, and I hope, somewhere between them, you feel like you belong.
As you dive deeper, you may meet many emotions along the way—the silence of not belonging, the ache of nostalgia, the weight of heartbreak, and the doubt that whispers that maybe you don’t belong anywhere at all. You may also find realizations waiting for you—the truth that the arms you long to be wrapped in can first be your own, that the love you seek begins when you choose to love yourself.
If this book reminds you of your loneliness, your self-doubt, your love, your heartbreak, or your growth, then it has done what it was meant to do. And if, by the last page, you feel even a little closer to yourself, then maybe—just maybe—you will realize that belonging was never lost. It was waiting for you all along.
-Disha