This reflection explores why awareness often arrives with discomfort, yet gives the working class something far more valuable than comfort: control. Seeing clearly reveals the incentives shaping our days, the pressures we carry, and the choices we stop making. This is the price of clarity, and the return is the ability to live awake.

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