IHATPPL

While on our way back from a store, we came up behind this car with the license plate, “IHATPPL”. I think it was supposed to be read as “I hate people”.

We humans have the impulse to label and categorize the world to avoid the anxiety of the unknown. While naming objects helps anchor our sense of reality, it can also confine the true essence of things within rigid mental structures.

No matter how fast you run, your shadow
keeps up. Sometimes it is in front!

Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.

But that shadow has been serving you.

– Rumi

The moments meant to wake us up often don't, until much later. The change doesn’t always happen at the threshold. Sometimes it takes years to realize you crossed one.

Have we become so conditioned by technology that we believe that the only way to maintain our bonds with one another is on social media? As though our online absence means we’re not present.

We are woven together by a fabric that existed long before the first fiber-optic cable was laid. For better or worse, we are connected—with or without the Internet.