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Made warm by the sun.

[ˈsɑːmbər @s00mber]

The first few seconds are usually obvious. The interesting part takes time. If you're still there. 😶

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@takashipom This is making me question whether I want a baby or just want to be the baby.

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No place in particular.

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🧑🏻‍🩰

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Most people are more than our strongest opinion of them.

High-resolution thinking tolerates complexity.

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Thoughts after touching grass:

Compression is useful for data. Less so for people.

Disappointment favors shortcuts.

One mistake becomes the whole person.

One failure becomes the conclusion.

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Fine. One last realization about human connection.

• Some things only make sense to the people who lived them.

Anyway...

Please watch out for the snails.

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• Maybe people were never meant to fit our expectations.

• Maybe they were always meant to surprise us.

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Against all odds, there are more realizations about human connection:

• People often spend more time hoping someone will change than learning who they already are.

• Understanding someone doesn't make them yours to reshape.

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• Acceptance isn't the absence of differences. It's the willingness to let those differences exist.

• Some of the deepest frustrations begin where expectations quietly replace curiosity.

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• The most meaningful questions are often the ones that remain open.

• Maybe understanding has less to do with finding answers...

• ...and more to do with resisting the urge to settle for one too quickly.

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I regret to inform you that there are more realizations about human connection:

• People are rarely as simple as the conclusions we reach about them.

• Certainty has a way of ending curiosity.

• And once curiosity ends, understanding quietly begins to fade.

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• The strongest connections often contain contradictions.

• That doesn't make them flawed, it makes them human.

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Somehow, more realizations about human connection:

• The most meaningful things are often both/and, not either/or.

• People spend a lot of time searching for a single conclusion.

• Reality is rarely that tidy.

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• Gratitude and grief can coexist.

• Admiration and disappointment can coexist.

• Sometimes the most honest answer is "both."

• It becomes easier to understand people when we stop forcing them into absolutes.

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• The deepest connections don't just change how people feel.

• They change how people experience the world.

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A few more realizations about human connection:

• People don't just leave memories behind. They leave traces.

• Over time, people become woven into each other's daily lives in ways neither of them fully notice.

• The strongest influences are rarely dramatic.

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• It's usually only in hindsight that people realize how much of their world was shaped by someone else's presence.

• The deepest connections aren't measured by how much time people spend together.

• They're measured by how much of each other remains afterward.

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• Sometimes, by the time people finally learn each other's language, the conversation has already ended.

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A few realizations about human connection:

• Caring for someone and making them feel cared for are not always the same thing.

• Two people can care deeply for each other and still miss each other entirely

• Most people express care in the form they naturally understand.

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• Sometimes people measure care by whether it looks familiar to them.

• What feels like neglect to one person may feel like devotion to another.

• Some connections don't end because nobody cared.

• They end because understanding arrived too late.