It’s been too long since you’ve been vulnerable. Rushing, fretting, working, taxiing. In all this business, It’s easy to forget the feelings you need. In every task or to-do, you wonder what your real job is. Not in the narrow sense – “should I be an artist, or a soldier?” – but in the widest sense. You ponder and mull, and decide that it comes down to this: everything is just humans affecting the perceptions and feelings of other humans. How will other people feel about this? That question is now the first one you ask when doing anything, and you realize it’s the only one that matters. There’s a secret place lodged somewhere between ability and humility. Most call it empathy. Those that deny it exists may claim to make art for themselves, and that rings false to you now. Some never buy a hobo a beer. Some pay lip service to giving. Some talk much and do little. Not you. Not any more.

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