Jonathan Goldstein

If things wrap up too neatly and too quickly, it's not good.

There needs to be that struggle in order to really get someplace and, you know, to get someplace emotionally and internal.

And it's hard to dramatize that.

You know, sometimes you just need the gun.

You need that MacGuffin.

Yeah, yeah.

It's complicated.

When you said that about, like, loving to talk to strangers, I don't even know if this is really, if this makes sense, but it occurred to me this morning.

I was on a run, and I saw these two kids.

There's something very sweet about the two of them.

They were wandering, you know, wandering.

I was kind of like a...

on a running path and they were just taking a leisurely stroll and they were coming towards me and they had such open faces.

They looked like they were wearing pajama bottoms.

Maybe that's just what kids do, but it had the affect of like feeling like they just rolled out of bed and maybe they were, you know, um, in love and, uh, were just happy to be spending the morning together and, or maybe they were on ecstasy.

I don't know, but they just, their faces just seem so open and,

I felt like stopping and telling them that that's a wonderful thing to see.

And then I also thought about how like if I was their age, that would be like – So creepy.

Yeah.

And that made me also – it makes me aware of just like how like clenched my face is.