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Ioia: the wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you encounter - checking the signal strength of their compability, a measure of their trustworthiness, or even just an emoji that tells you how they're really feeling.

Punt kick

A quiet jolt of recognition that it’s time to be a better version of yourself, sensing that all the strategies that you brought this far are no longer working — that it’s not enough to be cute or nice or righteous or tough — as if you’ve now entered a new phase in the game of life, moving forward with a completely different token.

The eye is the keyhole through which the world pours in, and a world spills out. For a few seconds, you can peak through into a vault that contains everything they are. Catching a glimpse of their vulnerability, their pain, their humor, their vitality. But whether eyes are the windows of the soul or the doors of perception, it doesn't really matter: you're still standing on the outside of the house.