Paradoxically, it is connection that often feels more uncomfortable. Division is seductive because it protects the identity you've built and learned to defend. It keeps your worldview intact. It keeps what you've decided is "true" safely contained within familiar borders. Connection, on the other hand, asks more of you. It asks you to stay at the table when your certainty is challenged. To listen when your instinct is to defend. To remain open when it would be easier to retreat. Division fortifies the walls of the self. Connection invites you to sit together, even in the tension, even in the discomfort and discover that you do not collapse in order for understanding to expand.