We didn't want it to happen. But it happened anyway.

Maybe you ordered the wrong thing at a nice restaurant. Maybe you threw out your back loading the dishwasher. Maybe you posted something genuinely funny and the internet met it with complete, crushing silence.

Whatever it was — you had an innocent wish for things to go well. And they didn't. And now you're doing that thing we all do: resisting it. blaming yourself, or someone else, or the dishwasher specifically.

Feeling disempowered is not a flaw in your character. It's a feature of being human. And the antidote is surprisingly simple: own it, say it out loud, find the absurdity in it. When we do that — something shifts. We feel less alone. Empathy does its thing.

That's what this is for.