There is a disonance

Between the world that resides in my head

and making it into a reality.

My head dreams a plan

But a dream requires physicality

It requires legs

and arms

Heart

To drag myself into the arena and ask

“I wonder if you could help me…”

And this is why AI will never come about

Physically

Out here in reality.

Because AI has no courage

No dream

It lives inside a machine

With cold ether for intelligence.

It may politely place a request

But there is no heart beating within a chest

No dismay at the thought of rejection

Sometimes I yearn for such protection

But then

how do we grow?

As you know, I have begun a photography project that requires me to take myself out of my comfort zone daily and walk into others, often strangers spaces, and ask them questions like “could I take a photo of your hands?”

I am writing about it on my newly resurrected substack site, which is free to subscribe to if you were interested in following along.

It’s a different type of writing to here (zero poetry) and I’m looking forward to it. The project itself sounded perfectly doable in my head but in reality, it is actually quite daunting to throw myself in front of people every day.

I’m not exactly an extrovert, however I also don’t believe in labels and prefer to think that anything I lack, I can learn.

There is so much to learn, and growth to be had. My skills in face to face communication and photography will improve. I will be consistently practicing all sorts of things which are difficult at first but I’m sure will become easier with time.

It’s simply worth it for the joy and connection I am encountering.

I’ve added a link in my About Kate section of this and also below.

https://substack.com/@kateduffwriter?r=1frfdp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

Is anyone else writing on Substack? If so let me know as I would love to follow your writing. It’s nice when I meet bloggers from here on other platforms such as Instagram.