Now that the community is more active and has a greater need to communicate with each other, Ajahn Jotipālo offers this reflection on the complexities of human social habits and what makes them complicated, using both recent and upcoming work projects as examples. He also gives guidance on how to approach those complications, offering us an approach centered around a willingness to be present with stress in order to both learn from and weaken the defilements which lie at the root of our suffering. This talk was offered on April 4, 2017 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.