The world can be hard and cold, but that doesn’t mean you have to be hard and cold to live and thrive in it.
At least not all the time.
Hardness and coldness come from fear. They’re an attempt to protect yourself from a threat.
Humans have the capacity to adapt to threats quite quickly, then adapt back to a less protected stance when the threat is gone.
We’re not armadillos. We don’t have to carry our armor with us all the time.
