Seeing the world as it truly is comes with a cost, because once the illusions break they do not fully return, the comfort fades, the blind optimism disappears, and you are left with a clarity most people avoid, you start seeing through people, through systems, through the stories you once believed, and that awareness creates distance, not because you want it, but because you can no longer pretend, and solitude is no longer something you chase, it is something that finds you when you outgrow the illusions that once made life feel simple.