News alert caution against interaction and encourage distance. It’s for the best, of course. Even if it weren’t, I’d gladly comply. People have always made me nervous. I’m indecisive to a fault. I often wonder why but I never reach a conclusion. Irony notwithstanding, I often fail even to form a hypothesis. Even the thought of it makes me nervous. Some things are better left unknown. Also unsaid. Debates of nature versus nurture often play out in my mind. In the end, I have no answers. Only questions. And a deep awareness of my otherness. I’ll always be a stranger to myself and others, I now believe. Who are we anyway? Never mind, I utter out loud. Have to remind myself that I walk to stop thinking. You think too much, Mama would always say. She’s right. I miss her. I wonder if the animals
