When you're part of the machine it will be life support, it will be a crutch.

· Bits and Bobs 4/1/24

Leaving it will feel like death, because you literally do not know how to survive without it as a crutch.

But when you do leave, and you survive, you realize you are a separate thing with agency, and you become even more alive.

Gloriously, precariously alive.