Part 1 of 2.
EDIT: Number 4 is incorrect, I chopped the bottom off by mistake! It should read:
4. Most people look unapproachable and cold until you talk to them and then they almost always are surprisingly warm and friendly.
I’ll post part 2 tonight…
It’s notoriously easy to slip into the unconscious assumption that any such aliveness is for later: after you’ve sorted your life out; after the current busy phase has passed; after the headlines have stopped being quite so alarming. But the truth for finite humans is that this, right here, is real life.