Our parents always told us to never talk to strangers, never take candy from a stranger, never go with a stranger; but isn’t it ironic how talking to strangers is basically how we make friends. families. Taking food from strangers who pose to be wanting to form a friendship fairly happens, and most people would greatly appreciate it as well. Going out, having fun, living life with a total stranger is simply called socializing.

As humans, we are genetically inclined to be a sociable species. Right from the start socializing has been a key factor in our life. When our families would talk to us, teach us, play with us when we were nothing but babes, all of that is socialization. Having contact with other people is a vital aspect in the development and growth of person. Sociologist would greatly stand by the nurture, more so than the nature.

Who we grew with, how we were brought up, and where, are all factors to what kind of person one would become. Though, in this day in age, where everything goes fast, life is rapid, nothing stays still; we, humans, are bound to run beside these advances. For years, we have adapted to all of the change that this world has brought to us; and somewhere along the way, something great happened.

A different species of human, different from the Homo sapiens, these ones are called “Homo sensoriums” or sensates. An advanced line of man where each is telepathically connected to a number of others. A group of this kind is called a ‘cluster’ and each cluster consists of eight sensates. They live off as normal humans until a ‘cluster parent’ (not part of the group) births them, awakening their connection to one another.

You can say that this mental network takes socialization to a whole new level, and I need you to utilize your connection.

I need your help. You are the only ones that can.

Park Jihyo

Seoul, South Korea

12/31/20