The Conditions of Will

The Conditions of Will

Author: Jessa Hastings Listening Length: 13h 21m
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I cant remember the last time I couldnt get a handle on myself and my emotions, but the lid is slipping. Something about the slipping lid feels like its Sam Pennys fault. Like he broke the seal and hes slowly opening me up. London-based Georgia Carter, professional lie detector and body-language savant, has long been e...

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The graveyard thing made us different with each other.

You know how there’s an invisible threshold you cross when you like someone where you go from just friends to something else? I don’t know what the something else is, and even though technically Sam and I are still just friends—if that, if we’re speaking on a technicality—the proxemics would imply there’s been a shift.

The standard interpersonal distance for talking and interacting with friends is one and a half to four feet, but Sam and I now don’t tend to be farther than one foot apart from one another whenever we can help it.

That sounds so sterile, I know, but actually it isn’t. It’s sort of romantic, because when someone’s standing that close to you, it reduces your vision field around you, which means you have to rely on your other senses, like smell and touch.