Make Me Weird

Even a pre-pandemic study declared that people under 30 considered themselves feeling distanced and weird. Photo by Daniel Mingook Kim on Unsplash

Walking down the streets of Chelsea I overhear someone crying into their mobile phone. “Don’t try to fit me into your box!” Their voice is a high-pitched whine, a plea.

Many of us know the feeling of someone trying to squeeze us into their box. Parents, teachers, school, work, teams, scrums. This is how we do things here. Do this, not that. Turn it down. Move up. Stand here. Wait there. Walk. Don’t walk. Run. Run. Run.