Natural Selection

by Elin Hilderbrand

As someone who can’t be present in the moment because she’s always on her phone, he said. It’s a bad habit.

It was an affliction of the millennial male: the utter downplaying of emotion. Everything was casual; in a world where their next hookup was only a swipe away, everyone was disposable.

Sophia holds it together until he closes the door, then finally, she cries. She did get thrown for a loop today; it feels good to hear someone else acknowledge it.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, and it is not the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change.

But Sophia realizes that Debbie Satterwhite will stay with JP because she’s unable to adapt to life without him.

she will remember the moment this picture was taken—and she will marvel at her own evolution.