how to love people: a guide
how to love people: a guide i am not a people person. i don’t understand how to respond to texts on time or to ask my parents how they actually feel — hell, i barely can pick up video calls from my best friend unless she gives me two days’ notice. but there is a certain kind of people i understand; people comprised of fiction. they all have arcs for one; redemption arcs, hero arcs, arcs of their lives that usually are projectiles if they’re lucky. these people are all great conversationalist (Lane: “I resent that. I’m a witty conversationalist.”) and they are friendly with the shape of grammar, unless it must be discontinued because of factors such as dialect, cultural background, a strong character that seeps into their very dialogue. now, though i’ve spent days analyzing such people and their deals (“We commit a cruelty against existence if we do not interpret it to death.”) and this is the only difference i’ve found between real people and people in books: people in books...