Feeling seen · Molly Mielke

it can be startling, if also invigorating and life-giving, to encounter someone who will break the script and deal with you as a person in fullest sense—by taking the time to regard you with kindness and respect, by offering a simple gesture of help or courtesy born out of deliberate attentiveness, by conveying care through the words they speak to ... See more

The pressure to perform and live up to the expectations of others is not a new social phenomenon — nor a bad one. **^^But the way it manifests at the internet’s global scale increases its intensity tenfold — especially for young people. The goal is no longer to simply live up to the high expectations of your parents and peers — online you could be ... See more

The giving and the receiving of attention are both intimate acts.  These acts are the very basis of all human communications, and by extension, human societies.  Any  tools or technologies that mediate this act need to be designed with great care, to artfully maintain the human elements around this mutual expression of vulnerability

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