Conductivity

I like to think that all things are somehow connected. There is a certain electricity each individual possesses that connects or disconnects them from others, and there are a kind of invisible spiderwebs that interlink all our lives.

I find this to be true on a pretty much daily basis. I connect with people I would never have thought I would connect with in ways I rarely expect.

For example, just in random chit-chat with one of the nurses I work with, I discovered that she lives in my sister-in-law's old house.

I cared for my first boyfriend ever the other night in the ICU, even though I now live 400 miles from where I grew up.

I meet people with whom I am connected in bizarre ways, and some would argue that is the curse of the "small world." I agree that, yes, it is a small world. But Duluth is also a smaller town in a big, big world, and in order to maximize the benefit of this underlying system of links, we must behave in a way that is always becoming.

Because you never really know who you are going to find yourself connected to next, and you want to be looked upon favorably at all costs. Which makes it hard for folks like me, who sometimes come off as brash. But Nicki Minaj said it best "To all the bad girls, I can see your halos."