We want connection without the inconvenience that follows it.

We find ourselves in search of understanding, closeness, and companionship, minus the “messy” parts:
vulnerability, accountability, effort, compromise, sacrifice, change.

We avoid hard conversations while craving deep connections.

We follow so many rules that we end up fatigued, trapped in constant performance.

We’re seeing inconvenience as a flaw rather than a feature.

Because if we accepted inconvenience as part of connection, we’d have to sit with some harsh truths about ourselves.
We’d have to admit when our actions hurt someone.
We’d have to hold ourselves accountable.

We’d have to notice what it truly means to be human;
the parts we try to hide,
the tough emotions,
our flawedness.

And damn, that is hard.
But hard doesn’t excuse us from accountability.

What do we become when we keep opting out, and who are we teaching ourselves to be?

Someone else carries what we refuse to hold.
The weight is only shifted, never relieved.

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