“I liked the part about his wanting to write different things or in a different way but wondering if there would be any readers!”
...I particularly liked when the pain was so bad that he had to reach for his phone. No doubt you remember the first time you thought you were with someone and turned to speak to them and found they were deep in their phone... ah, it’s a new world.
...or what about this: “There is a certain path dependency to history; things seem mundane to us, because we live in a timeline in which they have existed our entire lives, and so their fundamental strangeness never assaults us.” Woah.
I have a lot of family members like that.