A few days back a friend said something that sat with me longer than I expected it to. We were in the car. He was dropping me home. I don't remember the exact words but the feeling of it was clear enough. He didn't think he...
The man had a razor near my ear and I was trying very hard to look like I wasn't worried about it. But I was. But before I tell you that story I have to tell you the one before it. We have to go back to 2025....
A crow is sitting on a wall watching me. This is a Colombo crow, which means it has opinions and no particular fear of expressing them. We look at each other for a moment. I decide not to make it weird and keep walking.
Positivity is a tool. The problem is when it becomes a personality.
So I stopped doing it. Not because I decided to. Just because I kept taking the faster option until the slower one atrophied.
Before we ever loved a real person, we fell in love with the idea of it.
