… go from “so what do you do?” to opening up to me about their core-trauma with tears in their eyes. I realized the hypocrisy of my plan to remain aloof: how could I take pride in letting people feel vulnerable with me when I continued to keep people at a distance, only letting them know the curated, palatable version of me? I had been doing that all along, keeping others at arm’s length, and not even understanding that I w…
