The word “we” changes the room.
Shrinks the space.
It removes the distance between speaker and listener.
When I say we, I’m no longer standing outside the story,
I’m standing inside it.
We doesn’t mean agreement.
It means shared condition.
Fear.
Hope.
Confusion.
Pride.
Different lives.
We refuses a certain illusion.
The illusion that some people have figured out
how to live outside the human condition.
No gurus.
No special snowflakes.
People navigating reality together.
Trying to understand what’s happening.
Trying to relate to each other good enuf to move forward.
We is an act of humility.
It says this experience is not uniquely mine.
Or yours.
It belongs to the strange, complicated experiment
of being human.
When I say We, I’m not claiming authority.
I’m acknowledging participation.
The story of being human isn’t mine to explain.
It’s ours to live inside together.