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where has accountability and self-awareness gone? | musing no. 40

on mirrors, restraint, and the kind of love that still hopes.

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Oct 09, 2025
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somewhere along the way, we stopped looking in the mirror.

accountability used to mean something. now, it feels like everyone’s allergic to it. we’ve built a culture obsessed with labels—trauma, attac…

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