Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet
Sometimes two people will stand next to each other for fifteen years, both feeling out of place and alone, like no one gets them, and then one day, they look up at each other and say, “Oh, there you are.”
Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet Henrik Karlsson Apr 23, 2025 10,880 146 2,102 Share “Through a Glass Lushly,” Michalina Janoszanka, ca. 1920 1. Sometimes two people will stand next to each other for fifteen years, both feeling out of place and alone, like no one gets them, and then one day, they look up at each other and say, “Oh, there you are.” In the early 2000s, Helle (who is the daughter of two of my friends) was at Copenhagen University. Helle and some classmates decided to meet up each Thursday for dinner. As the mont
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