James Sexton

It's almost always small disconnections.

I mean, I think it's the same thing when you get a bad head cold and you just think, if I could just breathe, like if I could just breathe and not be sneezing and coughing, I'll be the happiest person in the world.

I'll drink water.

I'll take vitamin C. I'll do all the things if I could just feel better.

And then you do start to feel better.

And maybe for like a day or two or even a week, if you have real tenacity and discipline, you're taking better care of yourself.

And then you just go right back to being kind of an ungrateful piece of shit where you just go like, you know, there's other things, there's other things.

I really think that, and again, understandably so, I think we don't fix problems until they become real problems.

And preventative maintenance is just not a popular ethos anymore.

Like, it's not.

Like, we don't deal with anything anymore.

Like, you get a car, and in three years you get a new car.

So you don't really take that great care of the car, because who cares?

Three years is somebody else's problem, you know?

And it used to be that we were encouraged as a culture to like, yeah, take care of this.

This is yours.

Like, you've signed on for this thing.

Like, whether it's your body, which is the only one you're going to get, or your relationship that you've signed on and committed to.

Like, wouldn't you cultivate this relationship?

It's supposed to be your most intimate, deep connection.