Jennifer Horgan: We put up our defences and present ourselves as nothing less than perfect

Let's bring back the art of unfiltered conversation, where we can just chat without feeling the need to boastfully promote our achievements like we're a walking, talking Instagram feed

Who hasn’t viewed Simon Harris’s catastrophically poor interaction with disability worker Charlotte Fallon by now? Picture: RTÉ News

Do you ever walk away from a seemingly nice encounter feeling smaller? You don’t know why or how it happened, but you feel it — a change in your body, your mood has shifted down a gear, your shoulders hang lower than before.

Well, I’m beginning to pay more attention to these conversations.