Flowers, arranged in colour. A shop window, dressed with care. The scent of a restaurant, drifting out into the street and finding the back of your nose.
To walk through a city, well-dressed, is one of the small ways a person meets themselves.
And then — a shop window catches your own reflection.
Stop, for a moment. Look.
Which side are you carrying your bag on?
The right? The left?
For most of us, the answer comes immediately, and without thought. We have been carrying it on the same side for years. It feels natural — almost as if the body had been built that way.
It was not.
The body adapted.
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