Cool People

A list of people who I think are cool or nice who I know in my life or parasocially. It's meant to be hopecore for humanity because it's important to remember that not everything is horrible all of the time. This is going to take a while and that's ok. This might be more of a poetry page than anything. Who knows, I might even show this to people at a later time.

empty coffee mug with red star in the bottom

Those two ladies

Those two barista ladies who work in the cafe in my dad's office. You are very nice and seem like fun people. I remember seeing you from a young age and I hope you enjoy your jobs because I enjoy seeing you when I occasionally go there.

DMV worker

Thank you to the DMV worker (or volunteer, I don't know how the DMV runs,) who only called me "he" several times even though I'm trans and none of my stuff says that. You had no reason to do that or no way to really know, but thank you, even if you said it as a mistake. People like you make me feel better about living in a world which is often times against people like me. You also just seemed like a kind person.

Boy at Heathrow airport

I think you were some varient of British and slightly older than me, but you seemed like the type of person I would be friends with given the chance. Thank you also for calling me a boy, I appreciate that, man. I hope you achieve your goals (which are hopefully good things.)

Fellow in Champaign (Summer of '25)

You're probably a univerity student at U of I and you worked at the Noodles & Company when I went there and you complemented my Holst Planets shirt. I'm guessing you're a musician as well because of that, but I appreciate that regardless.

Australian (?) girl on bus in London

I was super eavesdropping on your conversation for about 20 minutes (sorry) but you were talking about violin (with a fellow aussie?) and I couldn't help but listen. One of you was talking about being a Suzuki student and playing throughout all of high school and I thought that was really interesting because that's the world I'm living in now, minus the Suzuki upbringing. I hope you find a way to get violin back in your life in a postive way.