We’re not made this way. Maybe in some families children don’t worry about their parents and parents don’t assume that every call is a distress signal. But not in ours. There are places in this world where people worry less intensely and with less frequency. Places where the hierarchy isn’t stretched tall and people aren’t perched high above their loved ones. Egalitarian places, where families don’t have to be self-contained battalions constantly defending against their neighbors and other strangers. But not here.
