One of the comforting thoughts, while intimacy is lacking in the time of COVID, is that your imagination can be so rich. If you are secretly curious about someone, you have the liberty to be “slightly delusional.”

The good news is that you always have something to look forward to, a reason to get excited. You know that the imagined person in your head could be but a perception of your projected ideals. Reality often has cracks and is often imperfect. Real people are complex; we are filled with dreams but also with crushed hopes. We constantly question our reality–where we are, who we are, where we want to be, who do we want to be. When you reach well beyond your 30s and are still unattached, it gets a lot trickier – real intimacy can be a rarity and quite impossible, especially in the time of COVID.

To the stranger that makes you curious, thank you.