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A problem is rarely what it appears to be.
It is not you versus another person.
It is not fate.
It is not bad luck.
A problem is two opposing ways forward on the same subject.
Both ways forward are held within.
If I speak,
I risk disruption.
If I stay silent,
I betray myself.
If I leave,
I lose familiarity.
If I stay,
I lose expansion.
Both directions feel costly.
Both directions feel freeing.
So you remain in the tension
and call the other person the problem.
But the tension is internal.
The discomfort comes from the unchosen self.
For a problem to persist,
the opposing positions within you remain unexamined.
You blame externally
what is unresolved internally.
When you choose cleanly,
the problem changes shape.
Not because consequence disappears.
Because confusion dissolves.
Clarity reduces tension before action does.
The split closes.
And the “problem” loses its charge.
Simone 💛
