Growth Series #1: I spent years watching people. On the train, in grocery lines, in the way strangers laugh too loud or leave too fast. I told myself I understood them. Their secrets, their silences, the lives I'd never be part of. It felt like enough. Like if I could see everyone else clearly, I wouldn't have to look too hard at myself. Not until you. You didn't try to fix me or make me smaller. You just looked at me like I was a whole person, not a role in your story. And for the first time, I felt seen. For the first time, I was sondered by you.