Something I learned from paying attention to social interactions and dynamics. If you open the conversation to a large group of people, there will always be : people who like what you're doing ; people who criticize what you're doing (some for valid reasons) ; people who don't understand you ; people who think they understand you but really their subconscious is trying to get their attention about their own personal issues ; people who didn't even question the validity of what you're doing just because they like the version of you that they know so they approve ; people who didn't even question the validity of what you're doing just because they dislike the version of you that they know so they disapprove; people who want to be you (some in passing, some in a weirdly intimate kind of way) ; people who want to get on you or in you ; and people who honest-to-God fail to see the humanity in you and you should critically beware of.









