A person deserves more context than a screenshot is usually willing to provide.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

A captured fragment travels without the hour before it or the relationship around it, and it gathers certainty as it moves. One sentence from a long exchange becomes the whole of a person, and every reader feels confident about the judgment because the image has the appearance of evidence.

Before you pass one on, ask what you would need to know to be sure it means what it appears to mean. If you cannot answer that, the honest move is to let it stop with you.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whom did you judge from one screenshot or one overheard line?

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