For sure. Remaining open is the key to keeping that connection with our inner child. The minute we become bitter and closed off that inner child walks away from us. Hive is very much that for me. It's a place of comfort where I, to a greater or lessor degree depending on engagement, feel heard—kind of the antithesis of other SM platforms.
I'm glad you still engage and connect face-to-face. It's so very important to make eye contact, smile, and speak, even if it's just a hello. There are a lot of lonely people out there. That short point of contact might make all the difference to them. Isn't it amazing when you can shift a person's energy for the better? Sometimes a genuine compliment will do that too, just totally shift their energy.
The book is just a really good fit for me, I connect with it because it's so poetic I think. I LOVE Rumi.