New friends and Narcissism
I woke up this morning with a careless yet happy smile on my face. I smiled at myself at how I didn't wake up thinking of someone who had been constantly on my mind lately. I felt a certain relief that I was (still) able to wake up with a thought of a person. A photo from the walk The precursor to it, I think, was the time I spent alone by myself on the walk I took later in the evening yesterday but most importantly, it was because of me indulging in seeing things through my phone's camera after so-so long, almost 8 months. I then met old friends as they came, took photographs (for my social media), met someone I knew very little of, and spent time getting to know whatever I could of them in the brief spontaneity that time allowed me to and filled the rest of my night with music on a lone train journey rather than call up the people that I talk to daily. However short-lived the conversations may be, as long as the vibe is easy (and superficial), the hours I spend with new peop...