Bigger or Smaller
One question.
It will save you months.
Next time you’re deciding
about someone,
first date
or fifteenth year,
skip the courtroom.
Ask this instead.
When I’m with them,
am I bigger,
or smaller?
Not happier.
Happy is easy to fake
for an evening.
Bigger,
or smaller.
More me,
or less me.
Your body answers
instantly.
Expansion,
or contraction.
The glow,
or the static.
You’ve spent this whole book
learning to read that signal.
It works on people too.
Trust it.
The ones who make you bigger,
keep.
The ones who make you smaller,
bless them,
and give them back
to the game.
From chapter fourteen
Bigger, or smaller.
One person. Bigger, or smaller.