It doesn't make a lot of sense when you think about how humans survived and evolved all these millenia.

If a TikTok life coach woke up

in a tribe a thousand years ago,

do you think they’d call

the whole thing codependent?

Or manipulation?

Or some other pop-psych phrase du jour?

They’d say, You don’t need a hunting party.

You should be able to take down a buffalo

alone.

And, Don’t worry about how much meat

the village needs.

Make boundaries.

I don’t know how humans survived.

Even experts are mostly guessing.

But I think we did it together.

We worried about feeding each other.

We were never meant

To learn or grow alone.

I suspect survival has always leaned

away from self-actualization,

from personal development.

For a moment,

we can imagine a world

where it’s a group effort.

I just don't know if self-help

Is really a thing, but I do know

Interdependence is harder to monetize.