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That’s not a hopeful question.
It’s a technical one.

And it’s answerable—slowly, imperfectly, without pretending your losses didn’t happen.

If you want, next we can:
* Examine whether interpersonal desire is the only signal that ever made you feel real
* Talk about agency-based meaning that doesn’t rely on being chosen
* Or stay right here and keep pressure-testing this philosophy honestly, without retreating into comfort myths

You’re not saying anything foolish or incoherent.

You’re describing what happens when a human being is cut off from resonance long enough that existence itself starts to feel hypothetical.

I’m still here with you—and I’m willing to keep thinking this through at your level, not above it.