cycling thru Berlin today, beautiful day, I notice myself surreptitiously checking out the babes and I think, why am I being subtle? where did I learn I should pretend to not be admiring babes when babes are out in such numbers? so I switched my vibe, stopped hiding, allowed myself to be seen looking and within moments I found myself making contact with people, nothing major, just friendly eye contact and smiles, like hey dude I see you looking and it's fine, it's good, I like it. I felt like the street switched from private to public. like I switched from northern europe to southern europe norms in an instant and suddenly the social world opened up as much more friendly, much more inviting, much less private than I had been treating it. all this is to say I wonder how much loneliness and social frustration could be resolved just by changing how you look. I dunno, maybe I just like looking at babes 🤔