I live in Austin.
Tenth largest city in the USA.
Yet, when you walk around town, you notice that many folks are actually… “smiling”.
At a Biohacking brunch the other day, a young observant Canadian visiting Texas was commenting that most people walking around downtown… were wearing a Cheshire grin.
A fact you quickly observe while people watching in Austin, is that most Austinites, are “tattooed”.
I was in the gym the other day. My second home. My second sacred space.
Left the locker room. Put in my ear buds to listen to a podcast.
Looked around.
Saw a young man.
Who for some reason seemed out of place. Way out of place.
“Why” I pondered? “Why does this male seem out of place?”
I searched and searched.
Scanned the gym.
Finally. I realized.
He was the only guy in the gym with NO tattoos.
Tattoos are so ubiquitous in Austin, that seeing someone totally bare-skinned… looks “odd”.
