How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't

by Lane Moore

and they’d be kind to me and it would hurt because it was new.

People have these entire worlds, entire histories inside of them, with thousands of knots tied by people you’ll probably never meet and will never know, so your helping to untie them is just not a thing.

again stuck in that mode of “oh I CAN” instead of the newfound world of “but you don’t have to” that I was trying to acclimate to.

Bamboo grows underground for three years before it sprouts up to thirty feet tall.