One. Listen to what they say when they are around 10 people, and listen to what they say when they are with you and your air of existence. Do they still have the same tone and choice of words? Asterik only if people like to be alone with you. Or if you are cat.
Two. Note their words of appreciation for people they talk about when they are not around those people.Do they notice things which generally slips your perspective?
Three. Do they ask questions? Random questions that don’t make sense in that particular context, or don’t make sense in general or you just don’t know the context. Asterik only if people carry a misunderstanding that you have all the answers, because you walk like you know all the contexts in this world or its just how you walk, every single day. Not implying anything at all.
Four. Do they appreciate art as much as they appreciate physical features of a person , or do they use their words as minnows. Do they appreciate the same art as yours?
Five. Do they have stories to tell about them overcoming their fear, or fear taking over them. Do they have the courtesy to know your fear and tell you that people who are brave need to have fears. Not one but multiple. Asterik only if you have enough guts to take out all your fears from the dusty closet and hang it on the walls of this hollow yet beautiful meuseum.

Six. When you say nothing, do they care enough to text you later to just casually ask if everything was in place, or whether if something was finding its way out like sadness in the eyes , which is too stubborn to change into water and salt.
Or you really don’t have tear glands and should consider the advice by some stranger who called you heartless once to contact an ENT I don’t know how would that bring me new tear glands
Seven . Do they hide things? Like you hide your failures behind metaphors, or the way you effortlessly let poems take away your heartbreaks a little far if not away away.
Eight. Have they also filled a bucket till the brink and not stopped because love is never too much to give.
Nine. Have people drifted in and out of their lives as smoothly as feathers in air. Have they stayed with someone till they are okay, and that same person has left them once they are okay. Is it okay to have too many demanding steps to know a person? Is it okay to set criteria’s for everything? Is there a criteria to set criteria or is it just our words that should have come out long back coming out at the wrong time? I think robin was right, timing is a bitch.

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