#17 The Most Inhuman Thing You Can Do Is Try to Be Human on Command

You sit down to write something true. But first you think: how do I sound more human today? And then something tightens.

That tightness is the answer. The human touch was never something you needed to acquire. It was there before the question arrived, before you thought to brand it. It is still there when you stop trying to manufacture it.

The search for the human touch is what makes you lose it. Not because it is a thing you have to find, but because the search itself is a form of distance.